I’ve spent enough time learning about DeFi primitives. And tinkering with obscure farming tokens and liquidity protocols. And speculating on “number go up.”
I want to get in the trenches and learn where real, sustainable value might be created.
The new Moondance Research model is straightforward: find one small, plausible operator advantage, put real money behind it, measure the result, and keep going.
The starting bankroll for each experiment is capped at $100 (for now). Small enough that failure is cheap. Large enough that the result is real. Real enough that the experiments will teach us about what makes money in this space and what doesn't.
AI will do nearly all of the heavy lifting on the research side: scouting opportunities, proposing previously untried paths to profit, challenging assumptions, comparing ideas, and looking for reasons not to proceed.
Then, when an idea worth trying makes it through the evaluation phase, the money moves.
That’s the part I’m interested in.
Not whether a strategy sounds smart on paper.
Not whether an APY looks impressive on a dashboard.
Not whether some marketing hype makes me feel FOMO.
I want to know what happens after my $100 is deployed.
If an experiment succeeds at growing it to $106 or more within one month or less, I'll cash out and move on. If it fails to do so within one month, I'll also cash out and move on.
Those figures ($106 and one month) are hyper-intentional. Because 6% monthly returns, if reliable and scalable, mean doubling capital annually and 1,000x-ing it in 10 years. It feels to me like AI plus Solana DeFi should make this possible. I'm going to find out.
Regardless of outcome, I’ll publish all experiment data here.
Experiment #1 starts next. Watch this space.