Alice Corsini

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Each DeFi lending generation solved a different problem. ETHLend: counterparty matching. Aave: liquidity fragmentation. Morpho: credit expression. I was around when ETHLend launched — peer-to-peer matching felt like the only way lending could work onchain. Then pools made capital fungible and Aave proved that simplicity scales. Morpho flips the model again. You define who you lend to, at what terms, with what collateral. Custom duration, custom risk. Capital becomes intentional rather than pooled. DeFi lending was built for a world where simplicity was the prerequisite. Now, sophistication is the advantage.

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And I was in the BD room when Dai was still single collateral DAI, and early Multi Collateral DAI before onbaording WBTC and USDC. With limited tools, we couldn't fix the constant depeg whether it's downward or upward, and partners were struggling to adopt it as stablecoin without stability lost its meaning

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Hot take: most companies don't need devrel they need integration engineers and solution architects. Blockchain software is now used by enterprises, which means we need to actually graduate into the mindset of: how can we best service our customers? There was a flaw in the early DeFi days that teams needed an active community of devs working on top of your protocol, that need devrels jumping in every hackathons across the world, having community calls, doing youtube videos, etc. The truth is: - it's 95% a waste of time and money: hackathons are very expensive, sending a few team members is very expensive as well, and the community of developers you create does not bring much value. - it's even more true now than it was in 2020/21: the space is more mature, instits and classic web2 companies are all coming onchain. they dont need devrel they need to be reassured on tech, business, legal first - people chasing hackathons usually don't care about your product/protocol or don't care about building a long-term product (they usually care about leveling their skills or grabbing money so they can attend the next hackathon in Bali). The few that do end up building a product have 95%+ of failing and the few that survive won't bring much value before a year or so - yes it's a lot of fun for those devrels that you hired, but the right question is: where could this money be better spent? What has the biggest ROI? You have to restart from 1st principle - you'd better allocate that money on sales people to close customers - and you'd better have solution architect and integration engineers that can provide great support to those customers - you'd rather focus your energy on existing and live projects for which you're truly solving a problem *now* - you have to realize that in many B2B companies, the one who makes the decision are often not the developers but the exec or product people Dont get me wrong, i do think having comprehensive documentation is important, i do see value for some projects in doing hackathons to battle-test your product, or hire talents or whatever, i do see value in having a developer community. But I strongly think that people should apply more 1st principle thinking before allocating significant resources to creating a community of developers.