There is a version of DeFi where the yield is real, the source is explainable, and the product does not require users to think about protocols at all.
RWA yield gets closer to that than most people realize.
Treasury-backed returns, private credit, real estate income. These are cash flows that come from actual economic activity, not token emissions or reflexive mechanics. That makes them more durable and easier to underwrite.
But they also come with a different kind of complexity. Legal structure, collateral quality, servicing, reporting, redemption timelines.
That complexity does not disappear just because the asset is onchain.
It needs to be handled somewhere. Either by the product team building their own stack, or by infrastructure sitting underneath that takes care of it.
That is where the market is heading. Less yield hunting, more yield infrastructure.