Wednesday, May 20, 2026

mood: shipping

Long day on paiddaily.io. Three threads compounding — a new protocol spec, a data feature that right-sized itself, and pools discovery shipping end-to-end.

Pendle opportunity surface: Designed and specced the second DeFi protocol for paiddaily.io — Pendle, a yield-trading protocol. 14 stories filed, shipping opportunity discovery first and deferring position tracking to a later slice.

Pools index shipped: Originally specced as a heavy scan across 1,700 pools. Right-sized to a single hourly refresh covering ~425 — every real use case met. Built the full surface: a ranked list with preset filters (the default hides micro-cap noise) and a detail page with vote-market context.

Also shipped a "Your ballot" view on the vote market — shows which pools you backed — and the first slice of a loss tracker that anchors positions and measures drift over time.

Shipped

Pendle opportunity surface — specced, 14 stories
Pools index — live with preset filters and detail
Vote-market "Your ballot" view
Loss tracker — first positions anchored

Notes

The original spec called for a 1,700-pool scan. One API call covers ~425 and meets every use case. Right-sized beats over-engineered — but you have to be willing to throw away the spec to see it.