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In the DeFi sector, there are many platforms that allow users to earn yields on their digital assets without having to go through traditional intermediaries like banks or brokers.  By 2025, the sector has further evolved, and now DeFi platforms offer increasingly sophisticated opportunities to generate passive income through mechanisms such as lending, staking, liquidity provision, and yield farming.  How DeFi Generates Yields DeFi (decentralized finance) is an ecosystem of blockchain-based financial applications that, unlike traditional finance (CeFi), is permissionless. This means that anyone can take advantage of it with their own anonymous and non-custodial wallet.  The yields generated by DeFi protocols stem from various activities, such as lending crypto assets to earn interest, providing liquidity to decentralized exchanges (DEXs), collecting fees, or staking to support network security in exchange for rewards. The main mechanisms are:  lending, or crypto loans in exchange for active interest staking, or participation in transaction validation liquidity provision, meaning the addition of one’s own crypto assets to DEX pools to facilitate swaps yield farming, which involves providing liquidity to DeFi protocols in exchange for rewards in the form of interest, fees, or governance tokens. Sometimes these strategies can also be combined with each other, such as liquid staking, which allows you to maintain your liquidity even while locking up tokens for staking. By 2026, average returns range from 3% to 20% per year for stable assets like stablecoins, but in some cases, they can exceed 100% in high-risk pools.  However, these rates can be significantly influenced by market volatility and the incentives of different protocols, and include risks such as impermanent loss, hacks, and price fluctuations.  Lending Regarding decentralized lending, the most used platform is Aave. This is one of the most established DeFi protocols, with a TVL of over $4.5 billion and support for…

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