A $90 billion on-chain lending pool—why hasn't Wall Street fully entered yet?

I used to think it was regulatory bottlenecks, but the real issue is infrastructure is too crude. The last round of DeFi played "communal pot"—everyone shared one liquidity pool with variable rates. But institutional money wants "risk isolation" and "fixed income."

The next level of Alpha is all in the "building wheels for institutions" track:

1️⃣ Risk Isolation: Aave V4 (main hub shares liquidity, edge nodes isolate risk)
2️⃣ Risk Management Outsourcing: Morpho (brings in professional curators, institutions directly purchase customized liquidity pools)
3️⃣ Fixed-Rate Income: Pendle (principal-interest separation, lets institutions lock in fixed returns)
4️⃣ Structured Credit: Maple (introduces traditional finance's senior/subordinated tier stratification)

Capital size determines gameplay. Stop staring at high APY shitcoin mining all day. The next wave of real money flooding in will only flow toward these base-layer infrastructures that can meet institutional compliance requirements.

Follow the smart money.

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