Yield isn’t free money. It’s a signal. It shows where systems need balance, where risk is being absorbed, and who pays for stability when markets move.
Most people approach DeFi yield as a feature - a pool, a vault, an APY on a screen. What they miss is the mechanism underneath: who pays, why they pay, and what changes when markets move.
In this path, you’ll learn how yield is actually created across DeFi - through liquidity provision, staking, and lending - and what trade-offs each structure imposes. You’ll see why some yield is stable and boring, why other yield looks attractive but decays, and how incentives reshape your position over time.
You’ll move beyond “earning” and start understanding participation : what you give up, what you gain, and how systems behave under stress. Impermanent loss, emissions, fees, and incentives stop being surprises and become variables you can reason about.
This path doesn’t promise passive income. It gives you the ability to tell what kind of system you’re entering - before you enter it.
The order carries the argument. 27 lessons, 4.5 hours if you do every one.
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