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DeFi Risk: A Quick Glossary of Terms You'll Actually See
A short reference for the risk terms that show up most often in DeFi discussions:
Impermanent Loss — The value difference between holding assets versus providing them to a liquidity pool, caused by price divergence between the paired tokens.
Smart Contract Risk — The possibility that a bug or exploit in the protocol's code leads to loss of funds, regardless of market conditions.
Oracle Risk — The danger that a price feed a protocol relies on is delayed, manipulated, or wrong, triggering incorrect liquidations or mispriced trades.
Bad Debt — Loans that become undercollateralized faster than liquidators can close them, leaving the protocol with unrecoverable losses.
Rehypothecation Risk — When deposited collateral is reused elsewhere in the system, increasing systemic exposure if one link in the chain fails.
None of these terms are abstract — each has caused real losses in past DeFi cycles. Knowing the vocabulary is the first step to actually evaluating a protocol's risk profile instead of just its yield.
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