Alright, rabbit hole #2…
WTF is StockFi? 😂📈
I kept seeing this term while digging into StonkBrokers, so I wanted to actually understand what it means.
The simplest explanation I’ve found:
TradFi assets + DeFi infrastructure = StockFi
Think about a stock in a normal brokerage account.
Traditionally, that asset lives inside a pretty closed financial system.
Now enter Stock Tokens.
Robinhood Stock Tokens are ERC-20 tokens that provide economic exposure to underlying stocks and ETFs.
And because they’re ERC-20s, developers can actually build on top of them.
That opens the door to things like:
→ Trading
→ Liquidity pools
→ Lending / collateral
→ Automated strategies
→ Options
→ Other DeFi applications
And THIS is where StonkBrokers started making a lot more sense to me.
They’re not just putting NFTs onchain.
They’re building financial products around this new onchain asset layer.
Stock Tokens become the financial building blocks.
DeFi becomes the infrastructure.
And StonkBrokers builds different ways to interact with those building blocks.
That’s StockFi.
At least that’s how I’m starting to understand it. 😂
The deeper I go, the more interesting this gets.
Next rabbit hole:
How the hell does my NFT have its own wallet? 🧑💼📈
Alright, rabbit hole #1…
WTF is StonkBrokers actually building? 😂📈
Before I got my Intern and started digging deeper, I mostly knew about the NFTs, Stock Tokens and Clock In.
But I was missing the bigger picture.
The easiest way I’ve found to understand it:
StonkBrokers has built an entire onchain financial ecosystem around StockFi.
And once you start looking under the hood, there’s A LOT going on:
📈 Stock Tokens
⏰ Clock In
💧 Liquidity / LP strategies
🏦 Lending
🔄 NFT markets & market making
🚀 Token launches
🔒 Liquidity locks
📊 Options / leverage
🧑💼 Stonk Interns
And these aren’t just ideas on a roadmap, these are products and mechanics you can actually interact with today.
That’s the part I didn’t fully understand before going down this rabbit hole.
I originally looked at StonkBrokers primarily through the NFT lens.
Now I’m starting to see the NFTs as just one piece of a much larger financial ecosystem connecting:
NFTs + Stock Tokens + DeFi.
And THAT is what I want to understand.
Where does the money flow?
Where does the yield come from?
What role does each product play?
And how does everything connect?
That’s what I’ll be documenting as I learn it.
One rabbit hole at a time. 🐇📈
Next up:
WTF is StockFi?