---
title: defi
description: This documents discusses useful functionalities for understanding global
  Decentralized Finances. The content includes source code, parameters, and the returns.
keywords:
- Decentralized Finances
- cryptocurrency
- CoinGecko
- parameters
- returns
- dataframe
- defi
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Get global statistics about Decentralized Finances [Source: CoinGecko]

Source Code: [[link](https://github.com/OpenBB-finance/OpenBBTerminal/tree/main/openbb_terminal/cryptocurrency/overview/pycoingecko_model.py#L514)]

```python
openbb.crypto.ov.defi()
```

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## Parameters

This function does not take any parameters.

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## Returns

| Type | Description |
| ---- | ----------- |
| pd.DataFrame | Metric, Value |
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Shows global statistics about Decentralized Finances. [Source: CoinGecko]

Source Code: [[link](https://github.com/OpenBB-finance/OpenBBTerminal/tree/main/openbb_terminal/cryptocurrency/overview/pycoingecko_view.py#L301)]

```python
openbb.crypto.ov.defi_chart(export: str = "")
```

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## Parameters

| Name | Type | Description | Default | Optional |
| ---- | ---- | ----------- | ------- | -------- |
| export | str | Export dataframe data to csv,json,xlsx file |  | True |


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## Returns

This function does not return anything

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