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
Why DeFi Needs Vault Infrastructure Decentralized finance was built on the idea of open access to financial opportunities. Anyone with a wallet can supply liquidity, earn yield, or participate in complex financial strategies that were once limited to institutions. Over time, however, the ecosystem has expanded so rapidly that navigating it has become increasingly complicated. Today’s DeFi environment contains hundreds of protocols operating across multiple blockchains. Each platform introduce...
Why DeFi Needs Vault Infrastructure
Why DeFi Needs Vault Infrastructure Decentralized finance was built on the idea of open access to financial opportunities. Anyone with a wallet can supply liquidity, earn yield, or participate in complex financial strategies that were once limited to institutions. Over time, however, the ecosystem has expanded so rapidly that navigating it has become increasingly complicated. Today’s DeFi environment contains hundreds of protocols operating across multiple blockchains. Each platform introduce...
The Future of Onchain Finance
Concrete: The Future of Onchain Finance Traditional finance feels stuck in the past, while DeFi often remains a speculative mess that demands constant manual effort. My conviction is simple: the real breakthrough is automation. Onchain finance will thrive when capital works tirelessly without babysitting, compounding continuously, managing risk in code, and scaling permissionlessly. Concrete is building exactly that future. What’s Still Broken? TradFi burdens users with intermediaries, slow s...
The Future of Onchain Finance
Concrete: The Future of Onchain Finance Traditional finance feels stuck in the past, while DeFi often remains a speculative mess that demands constant manual effort. My conviction is simple: the real breakthrough is automation. Onchain finance will thrive when capital works tirelessly without babysitting, compounding continuously, managing risk in code, and scaling permissionlessly. Concrete is building exactly that future. What’s Still Broken? TradFi burdens users with intermediaries, slow s...
