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# What's Different about DeFi?

Decentralized Finance offers many of the same products as Traditional Finance, including loans, savings accounts, exchanges, insurance, etc… 

What’s shocking though is that many of these familiar products work in very unfamiliar ways.  To see what I mean, let’s look at a few examples including decentralized cash, exchanges, lending and borrowing, insurance and derivatives.

Keep reading to learn more :point\_right: