Today, the UNI community's all-chain voting was almost unanimously approved — permanently destroying 100 million tokens and extracting 0.05% from the protocol fees for continuous repurchase and destruction. This means that UNI has officially entered a new phase of 'deflation + self-sustaining.'
Many UNI holders around me are cheering, as if they can see the prelude to a price surge. While I am happy for them, I am also pondering a deeper question: how can ordinary holders ensure they 'retain value' when top projects are all striving to 'create value' for themselves?
This thought has shifted my attention to another seemingly different but actually complementary track: stablecoin infrastructure. And @usddio is the potential project I am most optimistic about in this track.
Why do I still mention @usddio in the face of such benefits of UNI's deflation? Because the wealth growth in the crypto world requires two engines: one like UNI, which can create and capture value as a "growth engine"; and another, like @usddio, which can lock in value and provide stable returns as a "storage engine."
@usddio's core product USDD addresses the critical issue of "value storage". When you earn returns on protocols like UNI and AAVE (whether through trading fee sharing or liquidity incentives), in what form is it safest to preserve those returns? Convert to more volatile mainstream coins? Or convert to stablecoins?
If choosing stablecoins, then their stability, transparency, and yield-generating ability are crucial. USDD offers top-notch stability guarantees in the industry through over-collateralization and support from the wave reserve; at the same time, the @usddio ecosystem is continuously expanding, allowing holding USDD to be more than just a form of "storage", but also enabling stable compound growth through staking, liquidity provision, and other means.
You can understand it this way: UNI's proposal is to "build a moat" for the UNI token itself, while @usddio is to "build a vault" for your overall crypto assets. One is responsible for offense (value growth), and the other for defense (value preservation and appreciation).
Therefore, the deflation of UNI is indeed a significant benefit, but smart investors won't just focus on one track. Building a balanced asset portfolio, possessing "value capturers" like UNI while also allocating "value stabilizers" like @usddio and USDD, might be a better solution to cope with future market fluctuations and achieve long-term wealth growth.
After all, in a bull market, you earn returns, and in a bear market (or sideways market), you maintain those returns. And @usddio is committed to becoming the most reliable guardian of your returns in your crypto journey.
