Decentralized Finance (DeFi): Risks, Rewards, and Regulatory Gaps
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2025
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Abstract
Decentralized Finance ( DeFi ) has become one of the most disruptive technologies in the blockchain ecosystem with borderless, permissionless and programmable alternatives to traditional financial services. DeFi has grown as an ecosystem to allow people to lend, borrow, trade, and earn through the use of smart contracts and distributed ledgers, without requiring a centralized asset custodian. On the one hand, innovations are expected to further improve the transparency, efficiency, and financial inclusion of the industry; however, on the other hand, they pose a range of risks that question the stability and sustainability of the industry. Important issues that many people should know about relate to weaknesses in the code of smart contracts, risks of liquidity, governance assaults, and the influx of market volatility on users. Besides, the pseudonymous character of the blockchain transactions is characterized by concerns involved with fraud, money laundering and the risk of misuse of financial system. Concurrently, lack of harmonized regulation systems has created a disunified environment where regulation quality is either non-existent or highly variable along the lines of sectors. This presents a regulatory vacuum that not only makes risk management difficult, but also puts institutional adoption and long term integration in the mainstream finance into doubt. In contrast, the blistering pace of innovation in DeFi illuminates its potential to democratite access to capital, decrease transaction costs and transform globalfinancial infrastructures. In this paper, the critical nature of both rewards and risks inherent in DeFi and the current regulatory solutions to this issue and its weaknesses will be discussed. Withvention to further case study examples and potential governance solutions, the study seeks to answer the question of how DeFi can be developed in a sound and accountable manner. To sum up, the paper highlights that there is a need to have a balance of both protecting users, innovation and systemic resilience in an increasingly digital financial environment.
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| Authors | Dr. Priti Aggarwal |
| Journal | International Journal of Integrated Research and Practice |
| Year | 2025 |
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