Are you like this too? Every day, the first thing you do when you wake up is check your Bitcoin wallet and those few fixed mining pools, watching that tiny, almost consumed by inflation, return, calculating in your mind how far you are from breaking even.
You comfort yourself, calling it stability. You deposit your hard-earned money into so-called high-interest wallets, queuing like savers in the old days, waiting for that pitiful interest to be bestowed. You believe you have mastered the way to make money.
But you do not know that in the same world of blockchain, a complete transfer of financial power is happening. Some no longer beg for returns but directly control the machines that produce profits. They use your dormant assets as fuel to start a financial engine you cannot imagine.
And I was once part of the queue for candy until I inadvertently boarded that giant ship sailing away from the old continent.
One, the 'deposits' you cherish are merely raw fuel in their eyes.
Do you remember the excitement when you first heard that Bitcoin could earn interest? You transferred your coins to a platform, received a certificate with an interest rate, and felt like a financial pioneer. But the truth is, you have simply rented out the time value of your most precious asset—Bitcoin—cheaply. You gained a pittance, while the platform built the foundation of an entire empire with your assets.
They jokingly call it the sleeping giant whale. Yet the owner of the giant whale knows nothing of the tide's direction.
Two, from 'saver' to 'shareholder': a layer of brutal isolation you have never perceived.
This is the most heart-wrenching comparison: you think you are participating in DeFi, but in reality, you are just being used by DeFi. You are facing a black box: assets go in, profits come out. You cannot see the strategies, understand the risks, or touch the true core of profit distribution. There is a thick frosted glass separating you from wealth.
And just on the other side of the glass, the rules are being rewritten. A standardized financial factory operates quietly, no longer processing just Bitcoin. It encapsulates arbitrage strategies from traditional finance, interest from real-world assets, and complex cross-chain yields into clear modules. It's like upgrading from a workshop to a fully automated assembly line. Profits no longer come from simple lending spreads, but from controlling the assembly line itself.
When you are comparing which pool has an APY higher by 0.1%, they have already mastered the ability to price and supply returns for all pools.
Three, your illusion of 'choice' versus their reality of 'definition'.
You may feel a bit uneasy, so you start migrating between different protocols, chasing higher numbers. You think this is your choice and power. But fundamentally, this is like choosing which dog to bet on at a racetrack; the rules of the game, the design of the track, and most of the profits never belong to you.
True power lies in designing the racetrack. It determines which assets can become sources of profit, encapsulates complex strategies into simple products, and provides standard interfaces for the entire new financial world. This is the leap from athlete to creator of the arena. When countless projects rely on its factory to produce their own 'yield products,' it no longer competes; it becomes the infrastructure itself.
You are still trading products, while they have begun to sell production materials.
Four, urgent moment: The tickets of the old model are expiring.
Look around you. The credibility of traditional centralized platforms is collapsing, and the simple farming yields are being continuously diluted. The dividend period of the old model is closing at a visibly rapid pace. However, the assets you hold, your Bitcoin, still have energy that has not yet been released.
The question is no longer where to obtain 5% or 10% returns. The question is, how do you make your assets a part of the operation of the new financial system rather than consumed fuel? How do you transform from a passive holder of value to an active definer and captor of value?
The time left for passive savers is running out. When the yield factory is fully operational and standardized products flood the market, the meager capital and scattered efforts of individuals will completely lose their bargaining power.
The 'toolbox' that once merely helped you earn a little interest now houses an engine called 'financial abstraction layer.' It is no longer satisfied with serving you; it wants to serve all projects that need returns; it is no longer just a pipeline; it wants to become the central hub for yield distribution in the entire on-chain world.
From the awakener of sleeping assets to the builder of yield factories, and then to the participant in formulating on-chain financial rules—this three-level leap is not about improving products but about reconstructing production relations.
And you, are you content to continue receiving that designed, continuously diluted yield, or will you rise and walk towards the true core that distributes profits? This choice will determine whether you sit at the table or lie on the menu in the next cycle.
The giant ship has sounded its horn; it will not wait for any passenger who has yet to awaken.
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