My first brush with Defi was when Eth lead the charge last bull market.
I remember it surging to $1000 in a matter of months from previous lows in the hundred dollar range. Eth went pretty wild in a short period of time.
The reason?
Defi.
Decentralized Finance.
It was heralded as the solution to a lot of problems. And technically it is a solution to all of our problems, but in 2020 we weren't quite there yet.
Why?
Bad actors. Bad actors all around.
The amount of projects that were drained last bull run and venturing into the bear market in 2022 were many; entire projects folded on this concept alone, and some people lost everything.
Call it general human behaviour.
When one big investor pulls out then it discourages other people from investing. This can cause a major bank run, sending projects into a spiral of despair, barely recovering.
Not only that but I've seen people drain entire projects by farming their native token and hard selling it to the ground if the tokenomics weren't set up correctly enough to allow for utility.
People have been particularly cruel in this aspect, and the anonymity allows for a level of disassociation with the people connected with the money, and a form of sociopathy when bankrupting other people.
Much harder to look someone in the eyes when you are draining them, rather than through an anonymous wallet.
2023-2025 were the years that we saw a massive exodus from defi. This bear has been absolutely brutal, and if you were involved in any sort of decentralized finance then you'll know what I'm talking about.
Thankfully we are learning from our mistakes and that is where Magic Newton has stepped in to take the mantle.
If you haven't realised yet, this is far larger than AI wallets; it's an entirely new paradigm.
When I joined Newton in December we read that their goal was to make web3 as seamless as web2 by unifying blockchains.
Think all EVM chains unified to Newton, eventually.
Imagine the liquidity this would generate? Think super deep chunky liquidity.
We're launching on base, but we will soon integrate with Pol and Eth. Those were the three we read at the start.
We're talking trillions of TVL as the target. Imagine how crazy that would be, right?
But there's a reason for this super deep chunky liquidity and it's three fold. It doesn't just solve one problem, but it actively solves three of them.
Whales
With trillions in TVL it would barely make a dent in price and sentiment if a massive whale pulled out, or sold out. No bank runs, no people getting scared, no adverse reactions. Liquidity will be deep and very powerful.
Ai Agents
If Newton plans to have millions of users with just as many ai helpers navigating the blockchain then the TVL will need to be very, very deep indeed.
Think of it. You've probably not thought about this yet but imagine if we had 1000 users, and each of us had 10 agents that did 20 actions per day.
That's 10,000 agents running a grand total of 200,000 actions. Daily.
Now think there are 600,000 people in the Newton discord eager to get started.
You do the math.
True Defi Mastery Reached.
Defi was going to solve the worlds financial problems but the issue in 2021 was that the liquidity wasn't deep enough.
Bad actors also ran rampant and carefree.
If you don't understand this then let me break it down for you.
The reason there's a massive wealth gap right now is because rich people and governments are locking and hoarding away their extreme wealth in offshore bank accounts and stored away bitcoin off the markets.
This leaves regular people to deal with a stagnant economy that isn't moving. The poor are always lifted up when there is a free flowing (and moving) economy filled with money.
Right now money is locked away in treasure troves in offshore havens away from the economy and away from regular people.
Magic Newton will solve this by creating an unbelievable defi opportunity that people wont want to miss. Even better that their AI agents will do all the heavy lifting for them -- right at a point where big business is jumping into crypto.
That means businesses and regular people wanting to build new projects will have MASSIVE liquidity to pull from -- and all under one roof.
This truly is an once in a lifetime opportunity where rich people can grow their wealth, and regular people can earn from it.
But this is just the beginning
When liquidity is all under one roof, and everyone is locked and loaded, this is when the true building will begin.
When websites like YouTube and Twitter may actually find some competitors. I mean.. I like the sound of earning good from my tweets as a small account -- don't you?
Think of that multiplied by many new platforms on the horizon.
Maybe even to keep ahead of the curve traditional social media may be forced to integrate. Who knows?
One thing is for sure though, is that we are in for a very exciting few years!
Where money is brought to regular joe, and we enter a period of financial abundance.
For the first time in our lifetimes.