A series of DeFi related articles, videos, and resources.
To better understand DeFi I suggest understanding how the underlying technology works and how the protocols connect to each other. Below I intend to organize a list of articles, videos, and resources to guide your DeFi studies. I'm sure you'll not be limited to the articles in this list so if you found an article that you think it's important to add in one of the topics below please feel free to add to its equivalent topic. Keep in mind that this is ongoing work.
I believe that DeFi can truly create a new financial system and along with that, it can allow for the development of business models that we didn't know were possible. I often see DeFi as a movement, made of bright people that are experimenting with the edge of the technology and crossing boundaries once established. It is an endeavor for the brave and the curious. It requires study, dedication, collaboration, and passion. May the force be with you!
[Videos] DeFi 101
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaDcID4s1KronHMKojfjwiHL0DdQEPDcq
Decentralized Finance: On Blockchain- and Smart Contract-based Financial Markets
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3571335
A Bigginer's guide to DeFi
https://nakamoto.com/beginners-guide-to-defi/
Story of DeFi: How it Started, Where It Stands Now, DeFi Definition Revisited
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=31&v=wSUwFVp4Fn4&feature=youtu.be
Blockchain Learning Path
https://github.com/protofire/blockchain-learning-path
The Evolution of the Monetary Policy
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4HxJzlbJLEUpsZGduhSE42?si=eEl545kwSDu6znUUZpAG3w
Crypto Glossary
https://a16z.com/2019/11/08/crypto-glossary/
The Cypherpunks
https://nakamoto.com/the-cypherpunks/
Bitcoin Whitepaper
https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
Satoshi Nakamoto
https://nakamoto.com/satoshi-nakamoto/
[Video] How Bitcoin Works Anyway?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBC-nXj3Ng4
How Ethereum Works Anyway?
https://www.preethikasireddy.com/post/how-does-ethereum-work-anyway
Ethereum Yellow paper
https://ethereum.github.io/yellowpaper/paper.pdf
Crypto Networks and Why they Matter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wxtiNgXBaU&feature=emb_title
Crypto Canon (by Sonal Chokshi, Chris Dixon, Denis Nazarov, Jesse Walden, and Ali Yahya @ a16z)
https://a16z.com/2018/02/10/crypto-readings-resources/
ETH Monetary Policy
https://docs.ethhub.io/ethereum-basics/monetary-policy/
[Video] Mechanism Design
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCFlGLbI_kE
Aavenomics
https://docs.aave.com/aavenomics/
Overview of Stablecoins
https://multicoin.capital/2018/01/17/an-overview-of-stablecoins/
DAI Whitepaper
https://makerdao.com/en/whitepaper/
Decentralized Lending: An Overview
https://medium.com/dydxderivatives/decentralized-lending-an-overview-1e00fdc2d3ee
Aave Whitepaper
https://github.com/aave/aave-protocol/blob/master/docs/Aave_Protocol_Whitepaper_v1_0.pdf
[Video] Intro to Aave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiseNyNpniE
Compound Whitepaper
https://compound.finance/documents/Compound.Whitepaper.pdf
[Video] Compound
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4mWFI2Jalw
[Video] What are those cTokens that you receive from Compound Finance?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa3CsqWOdLA
The Yield Protocol https://research.paradigm.xyz/Yield.pdf
Building a Decentralized Exchange in Ethereum
https://blog.gnosis.pm/building-a-decentralized-exchange-in-ethereum-eea4e7452d6e
Uniswap Whitepaper
https://uniswap.org/whitepaper.pdf
Learn Defi - Zapper
https://learn.zapper.fi/
The Next Money Upgrade
https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/the-next-money-upgrade
Crypto Banks vs. money protocols
https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/crypto-banks-vs-money-protocols
DeFi will do to Bank what the internet did to newspapers
https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/defi-will-do-to-banks-what-the-internet
Why VCs are missing DeFi
https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/why-the-vcs-are-missing-defi
The Bull Case for DeFi
https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/the-bull-case-for-defi-vance-spencer
Naval on Tim Ferris (starts general and gets to DeFi by 75% of the talk)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiYo14wylQw
The Risks of Unknown DeFi Admin Key Opsec
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9fVIPhWj6c&list=PLRkNpyKhx0GccGaBSfhtPY_pkALJGPOvV
DeFi Prime
https://defiprime.com/
DeFi Pulse
https://defipulse.com/
DeFi Pulse Projects List and Links
https://defipulse.com/defi-list/
DeFiant
https://thedefiant.substack.com/
Token Terminal
https://www.tokenterminal.com/
LiquidityFolio
https://www.liquidityfolio.com/
LoanScan
https://loanscan.io/
Nansen
https://nansen.ai/
DeFi.WTF
carboclan/pm#69
The Infinite Machine
https://www.amazon.com/Infinite-Machine-Crypto-hackers-Building-Internet-ebook/dp/B07X8HS2WC
Economics and Math of Token Engineering and DeFi
https://book.economicsdesign.com/
How to Defi - Coin Gecko ($15 but pretty good) https://landing.coingecko.com/how-to-defi/