Lending and borrowing in DeFi follows the same basic principles as it does in traditional finance: I supply some asset as collateral and I am able to borrow a certain amount of some other asset.
However, this being DeFi, there are some important differences from TradFi.
The most important is that the protocol has no way of knowing how trustworthy I am, and thus will require any loan to be overcollateralized.
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