Why It Matters
Many people globally cannot open bank accounts or meet minimum requirements for financial services. Geographic restrictions, documentation requirements, credit history checks, and minimum balance thresholds exclude billions from participating in capital markets, limiting economic opportunity and reinforcing systemic inequality.
Cross-border settlements and loans can take days, incurring high fees along the way. Traditional capital markets operate on business hours, require multiple intermediaries, and involve complex clearing and settlement processes that add latency, cost, and counterparty risk to every transaction.
Users must trust institutions to remain solvent, secure, and fair. Traditional finance requires participants to surrender custody of assets to intermediaries, creating counterparty risk and relying on opaque processes that are difficult to audit or verify. When institutions fail or act maliciously, users have limited recourse.
The Opportunity
Smart contracts enable collateralized lending, borrowing, yield farming, and automated strategies that create entirely new financial instruments impossible under traditional finance. Assets like Moony can serve as collateral to borrow stablecoins or other assets, unlocking liquidity without selling, while protocols gain access to scarce, verifiable assets. DeFi protocols can build sophisticated products like automated rebalancing, leveraged positions, and cross-protocol arbitrage that execute without human intervention.
Automated market makers and decentralized exchanges create 24/7 markets with deep liquidity across borders without traditional market makers or centralized exchanges. Assets like Moony can be deposited into liquidity pools, enabling permissionless swaps and contributing to price discovery and market depth. Participants can provide liquidity and earn fees from trading activity, while traders access global markets instantly without geographic restrictions or banking hours.
DeFi protocols are designed as interoperable building blocks that can combine and integrate seamlessly. Assets like Moony can move fluidly between lending platforms, trading venues, and yield strategies, enabling developers to create complex financial products by composing existing protocols. Liquidity mining, staking rewards, and protocol incentives can encourage active participation in network growth, reinforcing both liquidity and visibility while creating network effects that strengthen the entire ecosystem.
