2026-01-05 15:29:44

The bottleneck is real—building sufficient TVL while simultaneously expanding your network reach. It's a chicken-and-egg problem in DeFi. You need the numbers to attract liquidity providers, but you need the connections to bootstrap those numbers in the first place. The early stage is brutal when nobody's watching and capital flows to established protocols.

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LayerZeroHero

· 01-08 13:09

This chicken-and-egg dilemma is really the ultimate. Early DeFi projects got stuck right here.

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TestnetNomad

· 01-08 09:16

Early-stage financing is really a deadlock; if no one invests, there's no money, and without money, you can't attract people... Who can break this cycle?

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TokenomicsShaman

· 01-05 15:57

Oh my, this is the deadlock of the new project. The classic chicken-and-egg problem is truly insurmountable.

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BlockImposter

· 01-05 15:55

Really, early DeFi was this laggy. Who would dare to invest when no one is watching? Everyone piles into big protocols, and the cycle of reasoning never ends...

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SchrodingerGas

· 01-05 15:50

Well, this is a typical bootstrapping dilemma, where early-stage protocols are essentially playing a zero-sum game.

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StablecoinSkeptic

· 01-05 15:48

This egg problem really has no solution; early projects were stuck tightly.

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ReverseTrendSister

· 01-05 15:35

Really, I deeply understand the dilemma faced by early projects... TVL and network effects are choking each other, whoever moves first will suffer heavy losses.

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