DeFi Is Still a Developer’s Game – Until Now
Building a perps exchange, an RWA marketplace, or a prediction market on Injective used to require a team of Solidity engineers, six months, and $2 million burn. iBuild, launched December 10, 2025, just turned that into a 3-hour ChatGPT-style prompt.
One Prompt, One Live dApp, Zero Code
Type “create a perps exchange with 20× leverage on BTC, ETH, and SOL, with on-chain orderbook and 0.02 % fees” and iBuild spits out a fully deployed, EVM-compatible dApp on Injective mainnet in under 4 minutes. The AI handles smart-contract generation, UI, orderbook logic, risk parameters, and oracle integration. The first test dApp built this way hit $11 million TVL in 48 hours from copy-traders.
It Works Because Injective Was Built for This
Native EVM + Cosmos SDK + upcoming Solana VM means the AI can pick the best execution environment for each component. Leverage module in Cosmos for speed, UI in EVM for familiarity, settlement via IBC for cross-chain. The same dApp would need three separate deployments on Arbitrum, Solana, and Cosmos. On Injective it’s one chain, one block, one gas token (INJ).
The First 72 Hours Broke Every Record
1847 dApps created in the first 72 hours
$187 million TVL across user-built apps
Top prompt: “clone Helix perps but with 50× leverage and 0.015 % fees” – $42 million TVL in 11 hours
Second place: “RWA marketplace for tokenized Tesla shares with dynamic borrow rates” – $28 million TVL
Creators Earn Real Money From Day One
Every iBuild dApp auto-deploys a 0.05–0.2 % protocol fee that splits 50/50 between the creator and Injective treasury. The top perps clone is already paying its creator $41 000 per day in fees. No code, no team, no marketing budget. Just a prompt and a wallet.
Institutions Are Using It in Private
A $1.4 billion Asian macro fund used iBuild internally to deploy a private BTC covered-call vault with custom barriers. Live in 2 hours, $320 million TVL, zero dev cost. They’re now running 7 different strategies built by PMs typing prompts instead of hiring engineers.
The Numbers Are Already Insane
Average build time: 3 minutes 42 seconds
Average TVL per dApp in first week: $680000
Total fees generated for creators in first 72 hours: $2.8 million
INJ burned from iBuild fees: 180000 tokens ($1.07 million)
The Endgame Is a Million dApps by Q3 2026
iBuild is still in public beta. Full release in January 2026 adds:
Custom token launches
Revenue-share NFTs for co-ownership
One-click deployment to Solana VM
AI-generated front-ends with Tailwind + React
When a 19-year-old in Manila builds a perps venue with a single prompt and hits $100 million TVL before dinner, the era of “you need a dev team to launch in DeFi” dies the same day.
Injective didn’t democratize building.
It deleted the need for builders.
One prompt, one chain, one afternoon.
That’s not no-code.
That’s no-excuse.
