namlong

I taught a friend how to use a decentralized wallet like MetaMask to interact directly with DeFi protocols, specifically yield farming on Uniswap. The hack was setting up a wallet, connecting it to Uniswap, and staking tokens in a liquidity pool to earn passive income—all without a bank or middleman. It blew their mind because they’d never realized they could control their own assets, earn high APYs (like 10-20% on stablecoin pairs), and bypass traditional finance’s gatekeepers. The idea that they could provide liquidity, earn fees, and swap tokens peer-to-peer on a blockchain, all while custodying their own funds, felt like financial superpowers. They were stunned by the transparency of smart contracts, where every transaction is verifiable on Etherscan. The real kicker?