A little about how Defi grow

  1. How Defi evolve from blockchains

First we have contract, price provider, saving, tokens

Then we have trade, lend, borrow and insurance

To complete that, you need yield to activate people

leverage it, options, etc. will then be introduced

Maslow's hierarchy of needs
Maslow's hierarchy of needs
How one product depends on another
How one product depends on another

2. Let’s see how you get your profits on Defi

Say Terra for example, you deposit your UST which is a kind of stable coin on Anchor Protocal, you got aUST which will capture the value generate by bond Assets.

Or you can join CRV war to maximize your profit, do LP or mix ways above.

Three way to earn profits
Three way to earn profits

How to mix it? Say yearn.finance for example

How yearn.finance generate profits for user
How yearn.finance generate profits for user

The problem with it is that

1)This is complex and might involve more risk

Compare White Whale and Anchor, White Whale balance UST price and generate more than Anchor but TVL is less because it’s more risky

2)the APY changes and you need to check for it more often

3. What’s the future of Defi

The evolution of Defi is that it’s less limited compare to central finance, and we can see it’s useful for both Ukraine and Russia during war period.

But to maximize it’s benefit, we need to solve the problem: how can we use those tokens in the real world. This is not just a technical problem(for instance: transaction limits), but also contains politic/law problems(for example, how to audit it)

4. Security first when you want to join Defi

Finally, there are some projects call itself Defi 3.0, I would rather call it auto investing strategies which doesn’t perform well so far, some of it even sell nodes and the audit of it is fake, be aware of those projects.