Many beginners who are currently trading on the $TON network may not even realize that they are doing so on decentralized platforms. For them, it looks like a normal action within the application: press a button, confirm the transaction, receive the desired token.
The reason is that DeFi within TON has gradually ceased to be a separate place where you need to go consciously. It has begun to be integrated into interfaces, bots, and mini-apps, where exchange, staking, or liquidity provision are no longer perceived as highly complex financial operations. The user interacts with the familiar UI, and all the logic of executing the transaction goes to the protocol level.
DEXs such as STONfi have effectively become the base layer through which virtually all transactions pass, even if the user themselves does not notice it. The application can act only as a shell, while the routing of exchanges, working with liquidity pools, and calculating the final rate all take place within the infrastructure.
As a result, DeFi ceases to be a standalone product and becomes an invisible part of the user experience. People don't go into decentralized finance, they just use the features within the ecosystem without thinking about the smart contracts and liquidity pools behind them. Perhaps very soon we will completely lose the line that separates DeFi from CeFi.
The reason is that DeFi within TON has gradually ceased to be a separate place where you need to go consciously. It has begun to be integrated into interfaces, bots, and mini-apps, where exchange, staking, or liquidity provision are no longer perceived as highly complex financial operations. The user interacts with the familiar UI, and all the logic of executing the transaction goes to the protocol level.
DEXs such as STONfi have effectively become the base layer through which virtually all transactions pass, even if the user themselves does not notice it. The application can act only as a shell, while the routing of exchanges, working with liquidity pools, and calculating the final rate all take place within the infrastructure.
As a result, DeFi ceases to be a standalone product and becomes an invisible part of the user experience. People don't go into decentralized finance, they just use the features within the ecosystem without thinking about the smart contracts and liquidity pools behind them. Perhaps very soon we will completely lose the line that separates DeFi from CeFi.

