The numbers don't lie. Centralized finance (CeFi) lenders imploded and brought billions of customer deposits with them. At the same time, DeFi lending went to work recreating itself. We’re no longer just debating lending protocols—most of which have deployed inflationary governance/utility tokens to boot—that are comparable in TVL to DEXs....
The numbers don't lie. DeFi lending’s Total Value Locked (TVL) is through the roof! It’s overtaken decentralized exchanges (DEXs), proved that sustainable yields are possible and reanimated the crypto lending scene. Can we, at the very least, question whether we’re seeing the complete picture? While DeFi lending's growth offers legitimate...
In the rapidly changing world of Web3, it is crucial to understand the impact and future of these new decentralized platforms. Until recently, the metric du jour has been Total Value Locked (TVL). TVL is growingly seen as a flawed metric. FakeBollinger.com has an exclusive preview explaining why Total Value...
Imagine this: Sarah, a 35-year-old graphic designer, finally decides to dip her toes into Web3. She’s seen the incredible investment returns, the world-changing technology, the hope of a decentralized future. She buys some ETH, ready to explore. But then… bam! Or she’s slapped with gas fees that exceed her monthly...
Web3 currently sits at a peak TVL of over a trillion dollars. Sounds impressive, right? How much of that value can you truly access today at the point you need it? Probably a fraction. That, my friends, is the trillion-dollar mistake. We're celebrating hoarding, not flow. In doing so, we’re...
Imagine this scenario – you walk into a typical bank and are offered an opportunity to put your money in savings. You can only use that money at their own retail branches! Sounds ridiculous, right? That’s exactly what’s going on in Web3—unproductive capital deployment toward the boom and bust cycle....
TVL has traditionally been the metric used to measure adoption in Web3 projects. It's simple: add up all the assets locked in a protocol, and boom, you have a number that supposedly reflects its value. But here at FakeBollinger.com, we don’t do that flimsy junk surface analysis. TVL is broken,...
