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DeFi & Market Structure

Liquidity, incentives, and market plumbing - enough fluency to assess proposals that touch DeFi without over-claiming expertise.

Advanced1 published course5 lessons~6 hours
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Spot incentive distortion and mercenary liquidity in proposals that promise ecosystem growth.

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What you will work through

DeFi & Market StructureAdvanced

TVL, Liquidity and Incentive Distortion

What a total-value-locked figure counts and what it hides, how liquidity differs from depth and volume, why incentivised liquidity leaves, how to evaluate an incentive proposal against a counterfactual, and the market-structure risks that sit underneath all of it.

130 min5 lessonsReading + exercise
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