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Monday, May 26, 2025

Inflation didn’t die in DeFi. It just slowed down and put on a nicer shirt.

We’re supposed to be in the post-farming era. But look under the hood of most "sustainable" protocols and you’ll still find emissions. Maybe they aren’t triple-digit APYs anymore, maybe the charts aren’t neon green—but they’re still printing. Slowly. Quietly. Steadily bleeding value from the system while pretending it’s long-term alignment.

This is the era of Driponomics.

The idea is simple: instead of blowing the treasury in a few weeks of hyperinflated rewards, protocols now stretch it out. Lower emissions, longer timelines, shinier dashboards. The slow rug. It doesn’t wreck you instantly, it just dilutes you until you can’t remember why you were holding the token in the first place.

The branding changed, the metrics got cleaner, but the mechanics are as dusty as ever. Instead of degens flooding a farm and exiting in a weekend, we now get Discord-based community calls explaining why a 12-month emission schedule is “strategic.” Token inflation got a roadmap. It’s rugging on a timer.

Protocols tell you it’s sustainable. They call it ecosystem growth, liquidity mining 2.0, aligned incentives. But it's the same game. Token emissions prop up TVL. Subsidized liquidity props up token price. Token price props up more liquidity. Round and round until the music stops.

Most of the so-called "real yield" platforms aren’t immune either. They might distribute a cut of fees, but that drip is still supported by some form of emission-based engagement farming. Whether it’s staking incentives or ve-token boosts, the DNA of 2021 lives on.

And the worst part? It works—until it doesn’t. People chase APRs. Treasuries bleed. Governance votes to extend emissions. Token holders pretend it’s value creation.

But dilution is dilution. Whether you get dumped on in a week or bled over two years, the outcome is the same: fewer reasons to hold, less trust in the system, more mercenaries farming your future.

Driponomics isn’t the evolution of DeFi. It’s just a slower way to die.

And if you’re still holding? You’re already paying for it.

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