DeFi
Financial services built on public blockchains.
DeFi (decentralized finance) is financial services like lending, trading and earning yield, run by smart contracts on public blockchains instead of banks.
DeFi mostly lives on smart-contract chains. Mining is a separate activity: it produces and secures coins, some of which people then use in DeFi.
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Pick a coin on the pools overview and open its How to Mine guide for a ready-to-run command.