I agree with this. People usually focus only on the first layer of yield in DeFi, but the real power comes when you stack those layers on top of each other.
Your capital keeps working instead of sitting idle.
Each new protocol doesn’t just add a feature rather it multiplies what’s possible.
The whole system becomes more alive the more you plug things together.
TradFi keeps money stuck in silos. DeFi lets it flow, recycle, and grow in ways that just aren’t possible in the old system.
And I think the “money legos → mind legos” point is even bigger.
Most people underestimate the second-order effects of composability.
THIS is precisely why DeFi is just 10x more powerful than TradFi.
With seamless interconnectivity & permissionless capital flows, value can be activated, stacked + reinvested infinitely.
It's pretty easy to understand, starting from a yield-bearing asset:
1⃣ Supplied to @aave for APY
2⃣Tokenised on @pendle_fi to earn LP + max boosted yields
3⃣Fed into @SiloFinance to enable recursive strategies and leveraged returns
Now, compare that to TradFi: you get a fixed deposit, your capital stagnates & that's it.
Dead-end capital, end of story.
In DeFi, the compounding isn't incremental, but exponential.
Now imagine this composability applied to intelligence infrastructure: the DeAI stack.
Instead of ‘Money Legos’, we refer this as ‘Mind Legos’ → modular, interoperable components of DeAI.
Each layer (from model training, to inference, to storage & distribution) can be plug-and-play, maximally adaptable for any use case.
But this is only possible through composability and decentralisation.
This is the real unlock imo.
And compared to money, intelligence is a much higher order layer with the potential to revolutionise things on a greater scale.
h/t @coinbase Research for the image reference.
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