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Wenn es um Non-Fungible-Token (NFT) geht, scheiden sich die Geister. Die einen halten das Thema für einen kurzlebigen Hype, der hauptsächlich der Geldmacherei dient. Die anderen sehen in der Technologie das Potenzial, das Internet zu revolutionieren. Die Gründer der nachfolgenden zehn deutschen Startups kann man wohl getrost zur letzteren Gruppe dazuzählen. Dabei verkaufen sie keine Affen-NFT à la Bored Ape Yacht Club, sondern entwickeln echte Tech-Lösungen, die das Internet der Zukunft, das Web3, ermöglichen sollen.

Few had heard much about decentralized finance (DeFi) in its early days in late 2017 and late 2019, beyond murmurs about Bitcoin and a mysterious new digital technology called blockchain. But a pandemic can change everything. Since May of this year, the total value locked (TVL)—the amount of any currency locked into tokens, the vehicle of holding and moving assets on blockchain, in smart contracts on a blockchain ecosystem—in decentralized finance projects rose a whopping 2,000 percent, according to DeFi Pulse. Many investors would be hard-pressed to find such an astronomical rise of any assets or expansion of any financial ecosystem, but DeFi app developers seemed to find success. So what's the rage, and why does it matter going into the new year?