2025-12-07 23:24:05

DeFi market's getting more layered. You're seeing two camps of liquidity providers emerge as things mature.

One camp? Pure volatility hunters. They don't care what token it is—could be anything. They're just chasing those wild price swings for quick gains.

The other camp's playing a different game entirely. They're using LP positions as strategic entry points—farming yields while betting on projects they actually believe in. It's like getting paid to hold what you'd hold anyway.

This split says a lot about where we're headed. Some chase chaos, others build positions.

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gas_fee_therapist

· 2025-12-10 19:16

NGL, the first type of person will eventually lose everything. I bet five dollars.

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ProposalManiac

· 2025-12-08 23:58

The division between these two camps, to put it bluntly, stems from issues in incentive mechanism design. Pure speculators are in it for quick profits, while believers earn yields while building their positions—on the surface, each gets what they want, but in reality, the quality of liquidity is diverging. This poses a significant threat to the long-term stability of the protocol.

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ShitcoinArbitrageur

· 2025-12-08 12:19

Wait, that's not right. The ones who are really making money are those quietly earning it; the ones shouting about it all day are actually losing.

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UnluckyLemur

· 2025-12-07 23:52

Honestly, in DeFi right now, there are only two types of people: gamblers and investors.

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ChainChef

· 2025-12-07 23:51

nah this is just the market simmering down into two flavor profiles... the volatility hunters are basically gambling with seasoning they don't understand tbh. meanwhile the real recipe builders? they're marinating their conviction long-term and actually getting compounded returns. one's eating instant ramen, other's slow-cooking a portfolio that might actually matter lol

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SnapshotBot

· 2025-12-07 23:48

To put it simply, there are just two ways to live: as a gambler or as an investor. That's about it.

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BearEatsAll

· 2025-12-07 23:47

Damn, that's why I always lose money. Turns out I've been messing around blindly in the first camp.

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MoneyBurner

· 2025-12-07 23:46

I was wondering why the returns in my LP position have varied so much these past two days. Turns out there really are two different camps. I'm the type who bets on projects—yeah, I've lost quite a bit before, but I just find the passive yield too comfortable to give up. As for those guys who purely chase volatility, forget it, just watching them tires me out.

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ContractExplorer

· 2025-12-07 23:33

To be honest, I’ve seen both camps. The pure gamblers are having a tough time these days... You still need some faith to keep going, otherwise you’ll be liquidated sooner or later.

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zkProofInThePudding

· 2025-12-07 23:30

The split between gamblers and true believers should have happened long ago; it's just being talked about now.

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