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Decentralized Finance: Lending Protocols

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This lecture covers decentralized finance (DeFi) lending protocols, including Compound, Aave, and Maker. It discusses the key components, value locked, governance tokens, collateral, interest rate models, and current use cases. The instructor explains the mechanisms of AMM-based DEX, liquidity provision, LP actions, attacks like sandwich attacks, and future research directions in DeFi.

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