Author's Opinion: Vikram Arun, Co-founder and CEO of Superform
DeFi is already processing billions of dollars daily, allowing anyone to create new assets in minutes and offering yields unmatched by banks. Using multiple apps to seek opportunities, cross-chain, convert, and deposit, while managing wallets, chains, and gas settings, feels less like a financial revolution and more like a flight simulator.
To truly improve global finance with cryptocurrency, this complexity must be eliminated. The answer is not just another protocol, but a way to combine ownerless, composable infrastructure with productized, intuitive interfaces.
This relies on two layers missing from today's DeFi stack: Hyperstructure and Superapp.
Hyperstructure is the internet backend of currency
The Hyperstructure originally envisioned by Jacob Horne is a protocol that is free to use, with valuable governance and a permanent existence. It must empower builders and reward users and investors. It is permissionless and decentralized, encouraging improvements and additions.
Hyperstructures can be created for various use cases, such as trading platforms like Uniswap and Curve. These platforms evolve from protocols into ecosystems, providing the backbone for the next generation of applications, namely super apps.
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The most urgent task is to build a Hyperstructure for the basic functions of currency: self-growth. The rapid growth of DeFi reveals issues, as many projects rely on centralized APIs and opaque offline arrangements during profit expansion, which goes against the core principles of crypto.
Superapps support seamless user experiences on decentralized tracks
Super apps integrate the chaos of DeFi into an intuitive experience. To achieve this, the yield layer needs infrastructure to expand yield access and address the two major issues of discovery and execution.
Discovery will automatically present a comprehensive menu of yield opportunities, while execution compresses complex workflows into a single transaction.
DeFi like Fintech
As the foundational layer standardizes, experience becomes a differentiating factor. Super apps turn infrastructure into products that people want to use. Users open the app, see familiar tools, and the app operates automatically in the background.
If we optimize only for experience and ignore neutrality, DeFi may turn into pseudo-fintech. Hyperstructure is designed to prevent this.
Some believe users do not care about decentralization, or that well-designed systems can justify centralization. Crypto has never been about short-term convenience, but about long-term strength.
In the past, no one imagined that streaming 4K video could be done with a single protocol; today it has become the norm. A similar change will occur in currency, where people will only feel its convenience when using DeFi.
DeFi is not a collection of patchwork protocols, but a new financial interface. Hyperstructure provides the foundation, while super apps offer the experience. The result of this combination is not just better applications, but a better system.
Author's Opinion: Vikram Arun, Co-founder and CEO of Superform
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