The Chronology of DeFi Since Inception until 2020
Decentralised finance or DeFi was already present in 2015 when Maker Foundation launched a decentralised lending platform under the name Maker DAO. But DeFi did not shape up until 2018. In early 2018, Uniswap was already a functioning service, and Compound was launched in 2018. But even then DeFi was not nearly as popular as it became in 2020.