“Moat”, a term coined by Warren Buffett, refers to a business’s ability to maintain its competitive advantage...As the name indicates, a moat generally relies on keeping others out, leveraging proprietary technology...While establishing a moat is difficult enough in traditional markets, the very idea of a moat seems impossible...

Aave and Compound have paved the path for the basic money market design space in DeFi. While Euler's TVL is incredibly small compared to them, it has been a standout year for the protocol's growth....

The success of every company – from tech giants to century-old conglomerates – can be reduced to its moat...Whether in the form of network effects, switching costs, or economies of scale, moats are what ultimately...While defensibility is often an afterthought for crypto investors, I would argue the concept of a moat...

AI’s biggest competitive advantage—compute power and proprietary data—is no longer an impenetrable moat...synthetic reasoning data is eliminating the need for proprietary training pipelines, eroding Big Tech’s moat...

Will the project be able to capture value from those users and establish a long-term, defensible moat...Ideally, as investors we want projects with multiple, compounding, unforkable moats that cumulatively...As such, an exchange’s primary moat is its liquidity since this will mean better execution for traders...

Differentiation on the demand-side is difficult as customers mostly care about execution While liquidity is a moat...While liquidity is a network effect/moat since it provides better execution (similar to how scale with...extraction by governance token holders will immediately hamper execution and thus the size of their moat...

...marginal risk-adjusted liquidity effectively, and this is a function of Yearn’s respective potential moats...You can siphon off a talented Strategy dev, but pulling the aggregate knowledge moat of the community...This makes Yearn’s moat more defensible....Second, governance plays a vital role in Yearn v2 Vaults, as stated above in the tacit knowledge moat...

Will the project be able to capture value from those users and establish a long-term, defensible moat...Ideally, as investors we want projects with multiple, compounding, unforkable moats that cumulatively...As such, an exchange’s primary moat is its liquidity since this will mean better execution for traders...

This being the case, in order to differentiate themselves, build a moat, and win their markets, DEXes...liquidity mining will be table stakes for new DEXes launching and is thus unlikely to provide an enduring moat...time, protocols that consistently innovate first on their UX may be able to build enduring liquidity moats...

We still feel it is unlikely Solana breaks Ethereum’s community/developer moat, but it would be naive...Net, Wormhole is amping up competitive pressures for layer-1’s regardless of one’s views on moats.

The more liquid USDC and the reach of this liquidity (integrations) is a moat for USDC....Therefore, will specific ‘smart’ stablecoins command a liquidity premium and a moat for the underlying...

...activity following the Nitro upgrade and our Research team examines whether Euler Finance can carve out a moat...⚡Can Euler Finance Carve Out a Moat?

Tether and Circle’s Moat Is Eroding: Distribution Beats Network Effects Incumbent market share held by...While USDH will not displace USDC overnight, this decision reflects a broader power shift: the moat and...But as the stablecoin stack commoditizes, that moat is weakening....Distribution is the moat....Circle and Tether's moat is eroding.

A New Framework For Understanding Moats In Crypto Markets **(Delphi Research)** In an industry where...the laws of competition are inherently accelerated, the concept of a moat is profoundly important....However, we currently lack the right frameworks for understanding moats, and downstream of this, where...

Fast Forks: Deepen Moat and Out Innovate ‘Fast Forks’ are the most common type of fork today, in part...As Sushiswap, Swerve, and so many others have shown, liquidity alone is not a moat—liquidity providers...Forks’ from new and existing teams (e.g., big protocols) alike, protocols should both deepen their moat...

But if you’ve been keeping up with DeFi over the past couple of months, you know Uniswap’s moat is not...Through these integrations, Sushiswap is cementing a fork-resistant moat and improving organic trading...

...chain-abstracted paradigm, intangibles such as brand or “vibes” and “alignment” will no longer be a moat...CAC) is also structurally lower for crypto apps As I outlined in A New Framework For Understanding Moats...Consequently, it is extremely difficult to cultivate a moat and sustain market share.

High, sticky yields might be the biggest moat for passive management protocols, but for active ones it...can be constantly commoditized, although continued strategy maintenance can be an underappreciated moat...

Does Gnosis have a large enough moat to be able to pull off charging a fee?...We broadly view Gnosis Safe’s widespread third-party integrations as a moat that gives Gnosis Safe significant...And this is why we believe integrations could serve as a kind of moat.

Obstacles Establishing a moat – Contango is in the midst of a points program and will soon launch its...Contango will need to be clever and intentional in their community building in order to carve out a moat...