It’s not just HN. It’s all over the web. There are some novel and interesting products being developed (reading about the theory behind Uniswap liquidity pools blew my mind) that people totally ignore because it’s easier to hate on the latest meme coin.
If (hypothetically) I’m anti-crypto, why should I care about defi, which, as I understand it, is all about trading crypto for crypto?
e: This isn’t meant to be a rhetorical question. Ever since Mark Cuban tweeted something about some loans that defi enables I’ve been wondering why I should care.