# Lucas Bennett ## Recent Posts - [DeFi Before vs After: From Trustless Narrative to Engineered Systems](https://paragraph.com/@bennett/defi-before-vs-after-from-trustless-narrative-to-engineered-systems) - [Before You Trust Yield, Check These 5 Things](https://paragraph.com/@bennett/before-you-trust-yield-check-these-5-things) - [Why DeFi Needs Vault Infrastructure](https://paragraph.com/@bennett/why-defi-needs-vault-infrastructure) - [A Smarter Way to Evaluate DeFi Yield: Looking Beyond APY](https://paragraph.com/@bennett/a-smarter-way-to-evaluate-defi-yield-looking-beyond-apy) - [APY Is a Shortcut But DeFi Needs a Better Metric](https://paragraph.com/@bennett/apy-is-a-shortcut-but-defi-needs-a-better-metric) - [Why Capital Efficiency Is the Real Product in DeFi](https://paragraph.com/@bennett/why-capital-efficiency-is-the-real-product-in-defi) - [The Death of the Dashboard: Why the Future of Onchain Finance is Autonomous](https://paragraph.com/@bennett/the-death-of-the-dashboard-why-the-future-of-onchain-finance-is-autonomous) - [Compound Interest Is the Real Innovation — Concrete Vaults Make It Scalable](https://paragraph.com/@bennett/compound-interest-is-the-real-innovation-%E2%80%94-concrete-vaults-make-it-scalable) - [Permissioned Systems Without Permissioned Trust](https://paragraph.com/@bennett/permissioned-systems-without-permissioned-trust) - [Why Security and Standardization are the True Engines of the Vault Era](https://paragraph.com/@bennett/why-security-and-standardization-are-the-true-engines-of-the-vault-era) - [The Death of the "Degen Farmer" and the Rise of the "Strategic Allocator"](https://paragraph.com/@bennett/the-death-of-the-degen-farmer-and-the-rise-of-the-strategic-allocator) ## Blog Information - [Homepage](https://paragraph.com/@bennett/): Main blog page - [RSS Feed](https://api.paragraph.com/blogs/rss/@bennett): Subscribe to updates ## Optional - [All Posts](https://paragraph.com/@bennett/): Complete post archive - [Sitemap](https://paragraph.com/@bennett/sitemap-index.xml): XML sitemap for crawlers