5 Disruptive DeFi Use-cases Every Investor Should Know About By IBT Contributor 04/08/21 AT 9:00 AM Decentralized banking seems like an oxymoron because of the toxic reputation of banks and central banks. Photo: xresch / Pixabay Remember when DeFi used to be just a couple of websites in which you could stake money? If you were here from the start, you also likely remember that once someone invented yield farming (essentially, borrowing money somewhere to take out loans elsewhere to stake in another place to then...), everything seemed to flip. What seems like a decade (with a pandemic and many, many Zoom calls in the middle) later, keeping up with DeFi resembles a full-time job these days.