DeFi needs higher certainty, not higher yield

High yields mean nothing without execution certainty. Institutional DeFi adoption demands predictable transactions over speculative returns at scale.

Opinion by: Robin Nordnes, co-founder and CEO of Raiku

Many decentralized finance (DeFi) diehards assume that the future of institutional adoption will be driven by sparkly, sky-high yields. The reality is that the mainstream will be most impressed with consistency and reliability.

DeFi opened the door for ordinary people to access financial tools that were previously reserved for institutions. For the first time, anyone could invest their money in open markets from anywhere in the world. That was a massive step forward. The same openness that made this possible came with a trade-off. Decentralization gave us freedom, but it sometimes meant unpredictability.

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