  Cryptocurrency can be understood as a digital asset transacted among
participants in the crypto economy. Every cryptocurrency must have an
associated Blockchain. Blockchain is a Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)
which supports cryptocurrencies, this may be considered as the most promising
disruptive technology in the industry 4.0 context. Decentralized finance (DeFi)
is a Blockchain-based financial infrastructure, the term generally refers to an
open, permissionless, and highly interoperable protocol stack built on public
smart contract platforms, such as the Ethereum Blockchain. It replicates
existing financial services in a more open and transparent way. DeFi does not
rely on intermediaries and centralized institutions. Instead, it is based on
open protocols and decentralized applications (Dapps). Considering that there
are many digital coins, stablecoins and central bank digital currencies
(CBDCs), these currencies should interact among each other sometime. For this
interaction the Information Technology elements play an important whole as
enablers and IT strategic alignment. This paper considers the strategic
alignment model proposed by Henderson and Venkatraman (1993) and Luftman
(1996). This paper seeks to answer two main questions 1) What are the common IT
elements in the DeFi? And 2) How the elements connect to the IT strategic
alignment in DeFi? Through a Systematic Literature Review (SLR). Results point
out that there are many IT elements already mentioned by literature, however
there is a lack in the literature about the connection between IT elements and
IT strategic alignment in a Decentralized Finance (DeFi) architectural network.
After final considerations, limitations and future research agenda are
presented. Keywords: IT Strategic alignment, Decentralized Finance (DeFi),
Cryptocurrency, Digital Economy.
