CeFi means or refers to the legacy financial industry by allowing people to earn interest or get loans, whereby they use their cryptocurrencies as a form of collateral.
DeFi refers to the application of smart contracts to financial instruments thereby removing the need for users to trust a middleman or corporation
This is the first time I hear it, but from your explanation, it is another way to make a headache. I don't like it
Haha, yes, there are certainly simpler ways to explain it.
DeFi simply means decentralised finance, where it's not a certain authority that manages the circulation of money, it has an algorhytmic background instead.
And CeFi is just a new term for traditional finance.