It’s impossible to navigate today’s crypto space without coming across decentralized applications, or dapps. Like regular apps, dapps have a broad range of use cases: there are financial services, decentralized file storage platforms, and even games.
Unlike regular apps, decentralized apps—as the name suggests—are built atop the decentralized infrastructure of peer-to-peer networks such as blockchains.
That means no one entity or person has control of a dapp. Instead, it’s secured by an infrastructure of nodes and crypto tokens. Because of this, dapps benefit from censorship resistance—with no single controlling entity, it’s almost impossible for a government or individual to take control of the network and shut it down.
Their decentralized nature also means that they’re unlikely to suffer from downtime. In 2021, when a Bitcoin price crash caused trading volumes on crypto exchanges to surge, many centralized exchanges went down, while decentralized exchanges (DEXs) con
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