Part IV — DeFi and applications

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What gets built on top of the chains: finance without an intermediary, tokens that represent the real world, and the economics (and the risks) that decide what survives.

# Section What it covers
1 DeFi: finance without an intermediary Money legos, AMM (constant product), lending/liquidation, stablecoins, oracles.
2 NFTs, RWA and beyond NFT (what it guarantees), art/ENS, RWA (tokenizing the real world), GameFi, DePIN, identity.
3 Tokenomics, bridges and risks Supplydistributionutility/DAOs, bridges (trusted vs. trustless), systemic risks.

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For dense reference, see Part VIII — Reference.