# Industry Outlook Decentralised Finance has been growing at an explosive rate with most of the developments and new projects being small incremental improvements upon broken systems that are institutionalizing inefficiencies that drive high cost and risk to users. Despite all this, the DeFi industry continues to grow. This mix of ecosystem growth with fundamental technological gaps create a perfect opportunity for eckoDEX to deliver a solution that will change the course of DeFi. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.ecko.finance/eckodao/eckodex/eckodex-litepaper/industry-outlook.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.