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Alpaca Finance said its leveraged yield farming saw strong early traction in 2021, but concentrated-liquidity AMMs with built-in leverage made traditional strategies less appealing and harder to execute profitably
Alpaca Finance disclosed it had operated at a loss for over two years, even after significant team downsizing, because its fair-launch model lacked VC funding and depended entirely on protocol-generated revenue
Alpaca Finance cited an increasingly competitive and saturated DeFi landscape that tends to favour large, well-capitalised projects with token incentives, as a key obstacle to maintaining operations and pursuing growth
Alpaca Finance entered meaningful merger discussions with several projects in early 2025, but all talks fell through as worsening market conditions derailed the deals

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