# What Is DeFi ? DeFi is another way to say "Decentralized Finance". Contrasted and conventional unified finance, it alludes to applications in different monetary fields laid out in a decentralized organization. Clients never again need to partake in the monetary market through unified foundations, yet can utilize the decentralized organization to procure, exchange, and loan resources. Essentially talking, it is to lay out another monetary framework that is available to everybody without the requirement for mediators like banks. The objective of DeFi is to lay out a staggered monetary framework to reproduce and further develop the current monetary framework in light of blockchain innovation and digital money. As of now, practically all DeFi projects are running on the Ethereum blockchain, and shrewd agreements are the primary built blocks of DeFi. The most well-known sorts of DeFi Dapps today incorporate Compound, MakerDAO, Synthetix, and decentralized trades (Uniswap, PancakeSwap, and so on.) --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://help.coinpocket.io/blockchain-basics/what-is-defi.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.