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Defi Explained: The Plain-English Guide to Decentralized Finance - Wallets, Gas Fees, Yield Farming, Stablecoins, DAOs, and the Risks No One Explains
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ISBN13: 9798194525751
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 24 2026
Pages: 318
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 24 2026
Pages: 318
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
You don't need to be a programmer to understand DeFi - you just need a map. Decentralized finance promised a financial system without banks, brokers, or gatekeepers. What it delivered was a maze of wallets, gas fees, liquidity pools, and acronyms that most explanations either oversimplify into meaninglessness or bury in code. Defi Explained does neither. Across 40 focused chapters, this book walks through DeFi the way a documentary crew would: showing you what you're seeing, why it works, and - just as importantly - where it can fail. You'll start with the absolute basics (wallets, seed phrases, gas fees) and build steadily toward the concepts that trip up even experienced users: impermanent loss, APY vs. APR, MEV, governance attacks, and the oracle problem. Inside, you'll finally get clear, honest answers to questions like: - What actually happens when you connect a wallet to an app?
- Why can the same swap cost $2 one day and $200 the next?
- How can a stablecoin lose its dollar peg overnight?
- What is impermanent loss, and why do liquidity providers get blindsided by it?
- Why does APY on a DeFi dashboard sometimes lie?
- How do rug pulls actually work - and what warning signs give them away?
- What is a smart contract really guaranteeing, and what is it not?
- How do liquidations, leverage, and health factors interact when a market moves fast?
- What is a DAO vote actually deciding, and who really holds the power behind it?
- What is MEV, and why can it quietly worsen your trade before it even confirms? Each chapter is self-contained and built around a single real concept - explained through plain language, real historical events (from the DAO hack to the Terra/UST collapse), and concrete numbers you can follow with a calculator, not blind trust. This is not a book about getting rich quickly. It's a book about understanding a genuinely new financial system clearly enough to make your own informed decisions - and to notice, before it's expensive, where the risk in trustless finance actually hides. Whether you're about to make your first swap or you've been in DeFi for years and want the concepts you use daily finally explained properly, Defi Explained gives you the map that should have come first.
- How can a stablecoin lose its dollar peg overnight?
- What is impermanent loss, and why do liquidity providers get blindsided by it?
- Why does APY on a DeFi dashboard sometimes lie?
- How do rug pulls actually work - and what warning signs give them away?
- What is a smart contract really guaranteeing, and what is it not?
- How do liquidations, leverage, and health factors interact when a market moves fast?
- What is a DAO vote actually deciding, and who really holds the power behind it?
- What is MEV, and why can it quietly worsen your trade before it even confirms? Each chapter is self-contained and built around a single real concept - explained through plain language, real historical events (from the DAO hack to the Terra/UST collapse), and concrete numbers you can follow with a calculator, not blind trust. This is not a book about getting rich quickly. It's a book about understanding a genuinely new financial system clearly enough to make your own informed decisions - and to notice, before it's expensive, where the risk in trustless finance actually hides. Whether you're about to make your first swap or you've been in DeFi for years and want the concepts you use daily finally explained properly, Defi Explained gives you the map that should have come first.
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