34  Blockchain

As you can see, we have a position and we supply some liquidity to

the market and will earn up to 398.02% APR as a reward that is not

possible with any of the banks.

9. You can also play with another dApp called Maker and take a loan

from the DeFi market. Let us run through it as an example in the

simulation mode.

10. Click on Maker on the left-hand side of the screen. You will see a

screen as shown in Figure 1.19.

11. Click on the ‘Deposit & Borrow’ option on the right-hand side of the

screen. Once clicked, you will see the following screen. Please note the

interest rate for the loan. It is still cheaper than high street banks.

12. It calculates the risk based on its criteria of maximum liquidity of

66.67% of an asset. We will go for 4.5 Ether and take a loan of 5,000

DAI tokens (Figure 1.20).

13. In a matter of minutes, we borrowed USD 5,000 by depositing

$9,551.25 worth of Ethereum based on the current market price.

Figure 1.17  dApp demo. Buy Inst tokens.