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DeFiChain (DFI) is a blockchain platform built with the mission of maximizing the full potential of DeFi within the Bitcoin (BTC) ecosystem. The software platform is supported by a distributed network of computers and is designed to facilitate fast and transparent transactions. The development team positions DeFiChain as an innovative blockchain project and offers solutions to problems like scalability, security and decentralization.

The project was launched in the fall of 2019 with the aim of offering financial services that commercial banks typically provide (borrowing, lending, investing, keeping funds). Yet there is a key difference between DeFiChain and a banking network: DeFiChain is a decentralized platform. This provides a number of advantages: authorities and entities cannot control the network and anyone has the right to participate in the launch of the network protocol. All actions support the entire network and participants in the process receive DFI tokens.

The DeFiChain platform ensures fast, transparent and decentralized financial services. The project is built on Bitcoin as a software fork and is tied to the Bitcoin blockchain using a Merkle root every few blocks. DeFiChain transactions are non-Turing complete, which makes them fast and smooth, with low gas costs and a reduced risk of smart contract errors.

DeFiChain's functions and products include: lending, token wrapping, pricing oracles, exchanges, asset tokenization, distribution of dividends, and more.

DeFiChain was created in 2019 by U-Zyn Chua and Julian Hosp, who also co-founded Cake DeFi. Both departed from DeFiChain in 2024. Since 2025, the project has been fully governed by its community.

Anyone can submit proposals, run a Masternode, or delegate their DFI to participate in governance voting. Hard forks, upgrades, and developer funding all require community approval. The Community Development Fund — powered by block rewards — ensures that all development remains fully transparent and community-funded.

There are two towering blockchains in the crypto industry: Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH), both of which have inspired the emergence of decentralized finance. However, these early innovations have their limitations: Bitcoin has a long-standing reputation for security, yet can only support basic BTC transactions. As for Ethereum, developers can create applications to perform more complex transactions, yet the network has problems with scalability.

This is where DeFiChain (DFI) comes in, aiming to tackle challenges like scalability, security and fair governance. The solutions it proposes are as follows:

• Building a blockchain platform for DeFi use cases, which is based upon Bitcoin in order to ensure a high level of security.
• Using a hybrid proof of stake (PoS)-proof of work (PoW) consensus mechanism for network operation.

The benefits of DeFiChain therefore include:

• Offering a full suite of financial asset classes to users in a permissionless and borderless manner.
• Supporting a wide range of cryptoeconomic financial transactions.
• Offering high throughput for all transactions.
• Achieving a high level of security through its hybrid consensus mechanism and the fact that transactions are non-Turing complete.
• Offering developers the ability to create DeFi apps on one chain.
• Providing a reliable and decentralized governance system.

DeFiChain (DFI) is the native unit of account for the DeFiChain platform. The token is utilized both as payment for transaction fees and as a governance tool (i.e., token holders can vote on ecosystem improvements). On top of this, DFI can be used as collateral to borrow other crypto assets.

DFI has a capped supply of 1.3 billion coins. 49% of the total supply was transferred to the DeFiChain Fund and the remaining 51% has been issued to masternode holders (over time). The project did not participate in ICO or initial exchange offering (IEO) events and the DeFiChain team did not conduct any sales rounds.

The DeFiChain (DFI) smart contract programming language is considered a safe option because it's non-Turing complete. In addition, DeFiChain is tied to Bitcoin (BTC) for security reasons: every few minutes DeFiChain takes cryptographic snapshots of the current state of the network and stores it on the Bitcoin blockchain (the action resembles a backup).

In September 2020, DeFiChain smart contracts were audited by SlowMist and in October of that year by KnownSec. No vulnerabilities were found.

DeFiChain's final layer of security is its hybrid PoW-PoS consensus mechanism, which takes advantage of the best aspects of each.