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The return on screen may be real, but it is rarely complete. Once you include impermanent loss, gas, slippage, strategy maintenance, and volatility, the APY can compress quickly.

That is why understanding the engine matters more than simply admiring the output. The mechanism matters because yield is never just a number floating in isolation. The source might be market-making fees, lending spreads, arbitrage, liquidations, or distribution programs designed to attract liquidity.

This is part of a broader shift happening across DeFi. That is the mindset shift the market has been moving toward.

That can mean providing liquidity without fully understanding adverse scenarios, collecting incentives while absorbing downside, or participating without modeling the path of returns. This is where the idea of hidden value transfer becomes important. When the mechanism is not well understood, the weaker model usually ends up paying for the stronger one.

The market may be shared, but understanding is not. The number may be public, but the understanding behind it is not evenly distributed.

Better infrastructure does not eliminate market risk, but it can reduce avoidable process mistakes. This is where process begins to matter as much as opportunity.

It should be evaluated as net outcome, not just gross promise. The deeper lesson is not about avoiding yield, but about reading it more honestly.

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