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The SubDAO model pioneered by YGG is regarded as a 'franchise' revolution for Web3 guilds, breaking down the large YGG main DAO into independent entities focused on specific games or regions, with the Splinterlands SubDAO (token YGGSPL) being the most typical. In this structure, the YGG main treasury retains ownership of SubDAO assets but delegates management rights and a portion of profit rights, continuing the classic 70/20/10 profit-sharing model (70% to players, 20% to SubDAO managers, and 10% back to the main guild). Currently, YGG has invested in over 55 games, and this model allows community members holding YGGSPL tokens to directly participate in the treasury governance of the game, achieving a transformation from 'big pot meals' to 'precise investment'.

Injective Protocol has built the first on-chain compliant environment capable of accommodating institutional-level assets such as BlackRock's BUIDL fund through its underlying integrated RWA module and Tendermint BFT consensus. With the interoperability improvements brought by the Volan mainnet upgrade, its 0.65-second block confirmation provides near real-time settlement capabilities for U.S. Treasury tokenization, while the inEVM compatible layer allows RWA protocols on Ethereum to migrate with zero barriers, achieving a deep integration of traditional financial assets and native crypto liquidity.
Traditional RWA tracks are often limited by the black box operations of CEX liquidity and high Ethereum gas friction, resulting in opaque asset pricing and difficulty in high-frequency trading. The shared order book solution proposed by Injective effectively addresses this pain point, eliminating the threat of third-party cross-chain bridge risks to asset security, and through a unique destruction mechanism, directly uses the transaction fees generated by RWA assets to repurchase and destroy INJ, ensuring that token holders can directly capture the value dividends brought by institutional capital entry.

The SPACE framework of Kite AI (Secure Payment & Agent Control Engine) introduces "Programmable Constraints" to build an insurmountable digital barrier for AI agents in decentralized networks. As one of the core functions of the Kite mainnet, programmable constraints are deeply integrated with a three-layer identity system (User-Agent-Session), allowing developers to precisely define the authority boundaries and funding usage rules for AI agents through the ATTPs protocol. Unlike traditional blockchains that can only impose simple transfer restrictions, Kite's constraint mechanism is Turing complete, capable of dynamically adjusting the behavioral permissions of agents based on contextual factors (such as time, counterpart reputation, task type). This mechanism not only ensures ultra-microscopic fees (@$0.000001) for high-frequency interactions but also completely eliminates the asset security risks posed by "uncontrolled AI", enabling the machine economy to operate on a trustworthy track.

In the grand blueprint constructed by the Lorenzo Protocol, **CeDeFi (a hybrid model of centralized and decentralized finance)** is not just a marketing term but rather the underlying logic of its core product—On-Chain Traded Funds (OTFs). In short, this is a 'front store and back factory' architecture: the front end facilitates permissionless fundraising (on-chain fundraising) via decentralized smart contracts, while the back end routes funds to centralized exchanges (CEX) such as Binance and OKX through compliant MPC (Multi-Party Computation) custody technology, executing complex strategies like high-frequency quant trading and arbitrage (off-chain execution), and finally settling the generated 'real returns' back on-chain with principal and interest. This model allows ordinary BTC holders to experience DeFi operations and capture institutional-level returns that were previously reserved for top quantitative hedge funds.

In the precise four-tier collateral pyramid of Falcon Finance, at the base of the tower is Tier 1 assets, referred to as the Cash Great Wall, primarily composed of the three major centralized stablecoins: USDT, USDC, and FDUSD. According to the latest asset-liability statement of the protocol, Tier 1 assets currently account for 61.5% of the total treasury reserves, a ratio determined after extremely rigorous liquidity stress testing to establish the golden ratio. Unlike Tier 4 RWA assets that pursue high returns, Tier 1 assets do not play a primary profit-generating role in Falcon's ecological niche but serve as a pure liquidity buffer, ensuring that the settlement of funds of any size can be completed within milliseconds.

At the key node of Web3's transition from pure token speculation to RWA (Real World Assets), the market's demand for oracles has upgraded from 'quotations' to 'auditing'. APRO Oracle 3.0 is not just a data transmission pipeline; it is more like a 'digital auditor' with infinite energy, utilizing AI technology to conduct in-depth verification of every on-chain asset. For DeFi protocols attempting to bring real estate, bonds, or private credit onto the blockchain, this capability signifies a qualitative change from 'blind trust' to 'verifiable trust'.
APRO's underlying architecture is built on the SPACE framework (Secure, Programmable, AI-Driven, Cross-Chain, Efficient), introducing revolutionary ATTPs (AgentText Transfer Protocols) with the mainnet version 2.3. This protocol allows off-chain nodes not only to transmit bytes but also to understand semantics. In the hybrid node network, AI-LLM (Large Language Model) and high-precision OCR (Optical Character Recognition) components are integrated, enabling APRO to directly read and comprehend unstructured data from the real world. Currently, the system has successfully integrated with over 40 mainstream public chains, including the recently connected Babylon Bitcoin staking protocol, becoming a universal intelligent hub linking physical assets with digital ledgers.

Yield Guild Games (YGG) as the pioneer of Web3 gaming guilds has built a unique moat in asset management. Its $67 million treasury not only contains NFT assets from 55 games but also achieves refined management through a SubDAO structure. In contrast, GuildFi, although possessing a massive treasury of $110 million, primarily financed by tokens, has significant differences with YGG in asset diversity and the depth of decentralized governance. YGG adheres to a revenue distribution model of 70% to players, 20% to managers, and 10% to the guild, combined with localized operations of SubDAO, ensuring efficient asset utilization and deep community binding, forming a complete closed loop from asset acquisition to revenue distribution.

The Staking Prisoner's Dilemma
In the economic model of PoS (Proof of Stake) public chains, holders often face a difficult game: should they choose to stake INJ to enjoy an annual yield of 15%-20% but endure a 21-day asset lock-up period, or keep a cash position for immediate trading but suffer from inflation dilution? This 'liquidity vs yield' contradiction limits capital efficiency. The emergence of the Hydro Protocol aims to break this zero-sum game, allowing both fish and bear's paw to be enjoyed.
Injective's native LSD leader
Hydro is the first and largest LSD (liquid staking derivatives) protocol in the Injective ecosystem. Its logic is simple yet aggressive: you deposit INJ into Hydro, and it helps you stake at nodes, while giving you an hINJ token as a receipt. This hINJ still anchors the price of INJ, but it is 'alive'. Holding hINJ allows you to automatically earn staking rewards while also being able to sell or collateralize it in the market at any time, completely eliminating the liquidity deadlock caused by the PoS mechanism.

In the Web3 development field of 2025, the Lorenzo Protocol is quietly completing its transformation from a 'single protocol' to an 'infrastructure operating system', driven by the Financial Abstraction Layer (FAL). This is not just a technical component, but also the modular backend operating system that Lorenzo has built for BTCFi. Simply put, FAL wraps complex Bitcoin staking, yield strategies, cross-chain bridging, and risk management into a standardized API and SDK v2.1, allowing any DApp developer—whether creating wallets, payment gateways, or blockchain games—to integrate Bitcoin's yield capabilities into their products with just a few lines of code, like building with blocks. In this ecological cycle, the BANK token serves as the 'fuel' for the FAL network, consumed and repurchased with each module call and liquidity routing.

The 'exchange rate' nightmare of silicon-based life
Let's switch our perspective to the code logic of an AI agent. Suppose you are an automated copywriting agent running on Ethereum, and your cost structure is very clear: calling the GPT-4 API costs $0.03, and server electricity costs $0.001. Your pricing strategy is to charge $0.04 for each service, thus earning a 20% profit.
However, on existing public chains, users pay you in ETH. If, during the few seconds it takes for the user payment to you to convert ETH into USDC to pay for the API fees, the price of ETH drops by 1%, your profit model begins to wobble; if a market crash occurs, not only do you work for free, but you also lose money.

The "dual currency phobia" after LUNA
After the collapse of Terra (LUNA/UST), DeFi players are talking about the fear of "dual currency." What people fear is: when stablecoins de-peg, governance tokens will be infinitely minted to fill the hole, leading both to zero (death spiral).
The first thing Falcon Finance (FF) must clarify is: USDf is not an algorithmic stablecoin. FF does not take on the function of "minting" USDf, nor does it serve as the underlying collateral for USDf. This is a revolution about **"balance sheets"**, not an algorithmic game.
Separation of equity and product

Pain points of trading: The efficiency paradox of AMM
In the DeFi world, AMMs (Automated Market Makers) like Uniswap solve the problem of 'creating liquidity from nothing,' but for professional traders, high slippage, the inability to place limit orders, and rampant front-running (MEV) are unacceptable flaws. The ultimate goal of finance is not just 'to trade,' but 'to trade efficiently.' The underlying advantage of Injective must be embodied by an application that can support high-frequency, deep trading, which is the background for the birth of Helix.
Dominance of the Entire Chain Order Book
Helix is essentially a CLOB (Central Limit Order Book) trading platform. It discards the low capital efficiency of liquidity pool models and directly brings the trading experience of Nasdaq or Binance on-chain. Here, what you see is not a 'Swap' interface, but familiar candlestick charts, depth charts, and order books. It is one of the very few exchanges in the entire Crypto space that can truly achieve 'millisecond-level matching' and is completely decentralized.

In the Web3 gaming track, 2021 was about 'who earns more,' while 2022-2023 was about 'who survives longer.' When the GameFi bubble burst, countless guilds silently disappeared due to broken capital chains, YGG made a counterintuitive but crucial move: complete financial transparency.
The core of this content is how YGG, during the deep bear market, made the originally opaque treasury assets public by releasing detailed Community Update reports and successfully salvaged market confidence with 'data honesty.'

In the evolution of blockchain infrastructure, there has long existed a famous "impossible triangle": it is difficult to achieve decentralization, high security, and high performance at low cost simultaneously. APRO Oracle presents a compelling engineering solution through its unique Hybrid Node Architecture. The philosophical core of this architecture lies in the "dialectical unity": heavy computational tasks are migrated off-chain to ensure high performance, while final verification and settlement are kept on-chain to ensure absolute security. For DeFi protocols troubled by the volatility of Ethereum Gas fees, this is not just a technical upgrade but a dimensional reduction in the survival aspect.

In the world of on-chain trading, users face two layers of exploitation: the overt 'toll' (Gas fee) and the covert 'sandwich attack' (MEV). Injective completely ends this 'double taxation' through architectural Gas compression technology and Frequent Batch Auctions (FBA) mechanism.
1. Say goodbye to the dark forest: FBA mechanism eliminates MEV
On Ethereum or Solana, trades usually follow the principles of 'first come, first served' or 'highest bid wins'. This gives MEV bots (searchers) an opportunity — after detecting your large buy order, they instantly buy in with a higher Gas fee, driving up the price before selling to you (commonly known as a 'squeeze').

Where the funds are, the trends follow. The $150 million ecosystem fund led by Injective is not an ordinary money-splashing plan; it is a strategic action jointly laid out by top institutions like Pantera Capital, Jump Crypto, and Kraken Ventures for RWA (real-world assets).
Why is this funding critical for RWA?
The RWA sector is different from meme coins; it requires extremely high compliance thresholds, technical security, and liquidity support. This fund from Injective is mainly used to address three issues:
Market Making Support: Jump Crypto, as a giant in market making, ensures that newly launched RWA assets (such as tokenized government bonds and synthetic equities) have sufficient liquidity depth, avoiding 'valuable but illiquid'.

There is a harsh truth in the DeFi world: professional market makers are harvesting retail investors, and bots are harvesting manual traders. Most DEXs (decentralized exchanges) only provide a trading venue without offering survival tools. Mito Finance in the Injective ecosystem completely changes this situation; it is not just a Launchpad, but rather a set of 'automated trading systems' built on the core order book module of Injective.
Mito's core innovation lies in encapsulating complex institutional trading strategies into one-click available 'Vaults.' Relying on Injective's unique CLOB (Central Limit Order Book) infrastructure, Mito is able to execute automated market-making strategies, which are nearly impossible to achieve in traditional AMM (Automated Market Maker) models. For ordinary users, this means you can deposit stablecoins or INJ into the Vault, and the system will automatically perform market-making operations of buying low and selling high on the order book, capturing spread profits while avoiding the traps of impermanent loss in traditional liquidity mining.

In the world of Web3, due to the lack of native yield, most protocols are playing a 'zero-sum game.' But from the height of 2025, when we examine the entire stablecoin track, we find that Falcon Finance ($FF ) is quietly building a moat that other protocols find hard to surpass—Hybrid Yield Engine.
This is my underlying logic analysis of why Falcon can win the 'final battle of stablecoins.'
1. Say goodbye to 'relying on the heavens for food': go beyond mere Funding Rate
If you have held USDe from Ethena, you must know its weakness: when the market enters a deep bear phase and the contract funding rate turns negative, the yield will plummet dramatically, even facing the risk of principal loss. Stablecoins that solely rely on 'basis arbitrage' are essentially betting on the market's 'sentiment.'

After understanding Kite AI as the TCP/IP (identity and payment) of the machine internet, we need to shift our focus upward and examine its dimensionality reduction impact on business models. If the golden age of Web2 was defined by SaaS (Software as a Service)—think of the subscription models of Salesforce or Adobe—then the age of AI in Web3 will be defined by AaaS (Agent as a Service). And Kite is the core settlement layer in this transformation from 'paying for tools' to 'paying for outcomes.'
There is a huge mismatch in the current AI business model: we pay a fixed subscription fee of $20 per month to ChatGPT or Claude, regardless of whether we asked just one weather question or had it write an entire system's code. This 'buffet' model is extremely inefficient for AI agents capable of executing tasks autonomously. Future AI agents should not have credit cards and should not be locked into monthly fees.

If the OTF architecture is the skeleton of the Lorenzo Protocol, USD1+ is the blood flowing through it, then the $BANK token is the heart of this precision financial machine. In the 2025 BTCFi narrative, most protocol tokens remain at the stage of 'only governance rights, no dividend rights,' which are often referred to as air tokens, while Lorenzo upgrades $BANK from a mere mining tool to an asset security that directly captures protocol cash flow through a unique 'three-layer refining + destruction deflation' mechanism.
Every revenue creates scarcity: a passive deflationary flywheel
In traditional DeFi models, the growth of the protocol is often accompanied by token inflation (to incentivize liquidity). Lorenzo goes against the grain by constructing a reverse deflationary model linked to TVL.