What is crypto lending?

DeFi lending allows people to borrow funds from a pool of lenders. The lenders receive yield from the interest borrowers pay. Decentralized lending and borrowing opens up this activity, which is mostly available from financial institutions such as banks in developed countries, to people all over the world, especially in developing countries.

Since lending and borrowing are foundational activities of any financial system, its inaccessibility to many people who could use it most is tragic. Indeed, there has been much work in the past 20 to 30 years on increasing access to funds in developing economies. One has only to look to micro-loans or web2 peer-to-peer lending to see progress. DeFi will advance microfinance lending and borrowing even further, while also making improvements in traditional finance.