Cardano DeFi Activity Has Dropped by More Than Half as RealFi Pursues Credit-Based Revival
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Cardano's decentralized finance ecosystem has contracted significantly, with key metrics declining by more than 50%. A project called RealFi is attempting to address the decline by introducing credit-based financial products to the Cardano blockchain.
WHY IT MATTERS
DeFi, or decentralized finance, is like a set of online financial services — lending, borrowing, and trading — that run on blockchain technology instead of through banks. Think of a blockchain like Cardano as a shopping mall: if stores (DeFi apps) lose customers, the mall becomes less active and less attractive to new tenants. When a blockchain's DeFi activity shrinks, it can signal that users and developers are moving elsewhere. RealFi is trying a different approach by offering credit products — essentially loans — on the blockchain, similar to how a traditional bank might offer a line of credit, but using blockchain technology to manage it. Whether this approach can attract new users to Cardano is still an open question.
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