Undoubtedly, the price of bitcoin was affected at the time by the start of the corona virus and the insecurity of the market that this caused, which must have led to people wanting to sell en masse, in order to cost their lives terrified by the pandemic, in any case this pandemic has made global changes leading to a new way of working and developing
In summary, from what I could read, DeFi is a smart contract, which can come from a cryptocurrency, the best known in this area is Ethereum, which is the one that performs the fastest smart contracts, so far.
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