DeFi & NFT
By Julie Binoche
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Why Investors Split Their Money Into Two Buckets. Statman's framework helps explain a lot of this. He says investors tend to divide their wealth…
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Aave's $14 Billion Problem Nobody Talks About. The DeFi sector makes the disconnect almost painfully obvious.
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Institutional Players Aren't Immune Either. Institutional investors are supposed to be different.
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That's pretty much the story of crypto right now, and behavioral finance researcher Meir Statman has a clear read on why.
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A recent MarketWise study put some hard numbers around this. It compared hypothetical $10,000 investments across a range of assets, running from January 2021 through April 2026.
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Statman's framework helps explain a lot of this. He says investors tend to divide their wealth into two separate mental pools: one to protect their current lifestyle, and a…
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And that's why narratives win. Not because investors are stupid, but because they're chasing a specific outcome.
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Volatility, then, isn't really the point. It's a side effect. Investors aren't embracing wild price swings because they love risk — they're accepting the swings because the…
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The DeFi sector makes the disconnect almost painfully obvious. Aave's total value locked exceeded $14 billion — that's real capital, real usage, real protocol activity.
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Related: Whale Activity Hints at Accumulation as Prices Edge Higher
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Newer narratives keep pulling attention away. It's not that Aave broke — it's that something shinier always seems to be launching somewhere else, and investors rotate toward it.
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Thomas Probst from Kaiko sees long-term fundamentals — resilience, liquidity, volatility profiles — as the real drivers of asset performance over time.
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Market timing, basically, is everything — and most people get it wrong.
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Institutional investors are supposed to be different. They focus on risk-adjusted performance, operational resilience, and they're not meant to chase. And mostly, that's true.
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