The near collapse of Wall Street in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis shattered the trust the general public put in traditional finance (TradFi) institutions. The centralized structure of TradFi left little space for independent financial settlements. To address the crisis, the revolutionary concept of decentralized finance (DeFi) emerged and disrupted how money moved. Cryptocurrency is the currency empowering the DeFi ecosystem by enabling peer-to-peer (P2P) transactions without any centralized ...