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 ...