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![VelodromeFi Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:24/cr:twitter::1511770076738990082.png) Velodrome [@VelodromeFi](/creator/twitter/VelodromeFi) on x 247.9K followers
Created: 2025-07-12 15:41:12 UTC

"Right now what we are doing far too often, is recreating the old models.

We have privately held businesses taking permissioned flows from DEXs while giving no value back to their tokens.

Why are we doing DeFi, if that's what were doing here?"

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