I’ve started caring less about headline TVL numbers lately. They look useful at first, but after watching enough DeFi markets, I keep seeing the same problem: capital can be there on paper and still be almost useless when it sits in the wrong place, at the wrong rate, or behind the wrong maturity.

That’s why I think TermMax may need to be judged differently. For a fixed-term market, total liquidity probably tells me less than how that liquidity is spread across maturities. A deep three-month market and an empty six-month market are not the same thing, even if the protocol reports one large TVL number.

That’s the part I keep coming back to. Borrowers do not just need capital. They need capital at a specific term and rate. Lenders are making the same choice from the other side. If everyone crowds into one maturity, the rest of the curve can look active while actually being thin.

I’m not sure yet what healthy distribution should look like. Maybe it changes constantly with market conditions.

But if TermMax grows, I’ll probably watch depth by maturity before TVL. A fixed-rate market only becomes useful when liquidity exists where users actually need it, not just somewhere inside the protocol.
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