If You Can’t Explain Yield, You Are the Yield
APY Is the HookIn DeFi, everything starts with a number. A high APY catches your attention. It signals opportunity. It suggests efficiency. And in a space where capital moves fast, that number becomes the hook. Deposit here. Earn more. Move faster. But what if that number is only telling part of the story? Because APY doesn’t explain how yield is produced — only how it’s presented.The Illusion of PrecisionAPY feels precise. It’s calculated, displayed to decimals, updated in real time. But pre...
If You Can’t Explain Yield, You Are the Yield
APY Is the HookIn DeFi, everything starts with a number. A high APY catches your attention. It signals opportunity. It suggests efficiency. And in a space where capital moves fast, that number becomes the hook. Deposit here. Earn more. Move faster. But what if that number is only telling part of the story? Because APY doesn’t explain how yield is produced — only how it’s presented.The Illusion of PrecisionAPY feels precise. It’s calculated, displayed to decimals, updated in real time. But pre...
How Do Concrete Vaults Actually Work?
Demystifying DeFi Vaults: What Your Shares Really MeanYou deposit into a vault, receive your position, and then you notice a few key numbers: shares, eRate, and NAV. At first, it can feel like learning a new language. What do these numbers actually represent? How do they relate to your money? Let’s walk through it from a simple, user-first perspective.Shares and eRate: Your Piece of the SystemWhen you deposit into a vault, you’re not just putting funds somewhere—you’re getting ownership. Thin...
How Do Concrete Vaults Actually Work?
Demystifying DeFi Vaults: What Your Shares Really MeanYou deposit into a vault, receive your position, and then you notice a few key numbers: shares, eRate, and NAV. At first, it can feel like learning a new language. What do these numbers actually represent? How do they relate to your money? Let’s walk through it from a simple, user-first perspective.Shares and eRate: Your Piece of the SystemWhen you deposit into a vault, you’re not just putting funds somewhere—you’re getting ownership. Thin...
Why DeFi Needs Vault Infrastructure
The decentralized finance landscape has grown at an extraordinary pace over the past few years. What once began with a small group of lending protocols and decentralized exchanges has now expanded into an ecosystem composed of hundreds of platforms, dozens of blockchains, and an almost endless number of yield strategies. Today, users can access lending markets, liquidity pools, derivatives protocols, structured products, and algorithmic vaults across multiple chains. While this explosion of o...
Why DeFi Needs Vault Infrastructure
The decentralized finance landscape has grown at an extraordinary pace over the past few years. What once began with a small group of lending protocols and decentralized exchanges has now expanded into an ecosystem composed of hundreds of platforms, dozens of blockchains, and an almost endless number of yield strategies. Today, users can access lending markets, liquidity pools, derivatives protocols, structured products, and algorithmic vaults across multiple chains. While this explosion of o...
The Future of Onchain Finance
The Future of Onchain Finance Today’s financial systems feel outdated. They are slow, fragmented, and built around manual processes that do not scale globally. Even in DeFi, where innovation moves faster, users are still forced to manage complexity, chase APYs, and take on hidden risks just to earn sustainable returns. DeFi promised open and permissionless finance, but it has not fully delivered yet. Too much responsibility still sits with the user. Capital must be actively managed. Rewards m...
The Future of Onchain Finance
The Future of Onchain Finance Today’s financial systems feel outdated. They are slow, fragmented, and built around manual processes that do not scale globally. Even in DeFi, where innovation moves faster, users are still forced to manage complexity, chase APYs, and take on hidden risks just to earn sustainable returns. DeFi promised open and permissionless finance, but it has not fully delivered yet. Too much responsibility still sits with the user. Capital must be actively managed. Rewards m...
