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Why isn’t DeFi making money where the money already is? 💸🤔
Crypto prices today move with U.S. macro data. Trading feeds are full of strategies tied to the same indicators traditional markets watch: rates, inflation, jobs, even oil inventories.
That’s because prices are driven by large, professional investors. And for them, crypto is just one option in a broader portfolio. Most DeFi projects still ignore this reality.
The Fed cuts rates. Liquidity gets cheaper. Bonds and deposits stop paying. Capital looks for alternatives and flows toward crypto.
Investors usually choose one of two paths: buy tokens,
or park capital in DeFi.
This should be DeFi’s moment. For investors leaving bonds, passive yield with relatively low risk is exactly the right offer.
They buy USDT, deposit it into Aave, earn yield and leave. The AAVE token isn’t required. The money arrives. The token economy doesn’t.
DeFi could extract far more value from rate-cut cycles. For now, it’s letting that opportunity slip.
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