For the past five years, DeFi has been obsessed with interfaces. New dashboards, new strategies, new “yield opportunities,” new wrappers around the same primitives. But if you zoom out, a pattern becomes obvious: every cycle produces more applications, yet the underlying financial layer barely evolves. We keep building higher, but not deeper. The truth is uncomfortable but necessary: DeFi doesn’t need more apps. It needs architecture. A system cannot scale if its foundation is unstable — and ...

For the past five years, DeFi has been obsessed with interfaces. New dashboards, new strategies, new “yield opportunities,” new wrappers around the same primitives. But if you zoom out, a pattern becomes obvious: every cycle produces more applications, yet the underlying financial layer barely evolves. We keep building higher, but not deeper. The truth is uncomfortable but necessary: DeFi doesn’t need more apps. It needs architecture. A system cannot scale if its foundation is unstable — and ...