Move the Mic: Goblin Finance 🎤

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In this week’s Move the Mic interview, we sit down with Goblin Finance, the team building the Native Yield Layer for Aptos. From automated liquidity management and delta-neutral strategies to yield-enhanced staking with goAPT, Goblin is on a mission to transform idle capital into productive liquidity all while making DeFi simpler for users.

Let’s dive into their story, their vision for Aptos, and what makes Goblin Finance such a unique piece of the ecosystem.

Neşe: Can you tell us about your project and its main objectives within the Aptos ecosystem?

Goblin: Goblin Finance is building the Native Yield Layer for Aptos. Our platform unifies automated liquidity management (ALM), delta-neutral strategies, CeDeFi yield, and a yield-enhanced liquid staking token (goAPT). Our main objective is to transform idle or underutilized capital into productive liquidity, while reducing complexity for users and directly benefiting APT holders through profit-sharing mechanisms in our goAPT LST.

We integrate deeply with Aptos-native protocols: on Hyperion (V3 DEX), Goblin’s ALM vaults improve fee capture and liquidity efficiency; on Decibel (perp DEX), our delta-neutral strategies drive trading activity and liquidity retention. Beyond that, Goblin supplies liquidity to lending protocols and enhances yields through recursive lending. This not only activates more capital and boosts perp DEX activity, but also helps DEX LP pools retain users. Importantly, Goblin lowers the barrier for users less familiar with Web3, providing a simple one-click entry into DeFi.

Neşe: What’s one thing about your project that you think would surprise people who aren’t familiar with it?

Goblin: One surprise is how powerful compounding really is. With $100,000 at 15% for 10 years:

-Under simple interest, it grows to $250,000.

-With compounding, it grows to more than $404,000.

That’s a $154,000 difference, and Goblin automates this reinvestment so users don’t miss it. Another surprise is that Goblin acts as a DeFi Lego. Our goVault and goAPT don’t just create yield internally — they integrate with lending protocols, AMMs, and perp DEXs, building new flywheels and strengthening the whole ecosystem. Combined with our CeDeFi strategies that bring liquidity back on-chain, Goblin creates compounding effects both inside and outside the platform.

Neşe: If your project were an animal, what would it be and why?

Goblin: Goblin would be an octopus — intelligent, adaptive, and able to coordinate multiple arms at once. Each arm represents a strategy: Automated Liquidity Management on Hyperion, delta-neutral trading on perpetual DEXs, CeDeFi yield strategies, leveraged lending loops, and our yield-enhanced LST goAPT.

Just like an octopus thrives in changing environments, Goblin’s strategies are designed for different market conditions. In trending markets, ALM captures fees efficiently; in sideways or volatile markets, delta-neutral strategies protect capital; in bullish environments, leveraged lending amplifies returns. The octopus is also a fast learner, and we mirror that by continuously upgrading our models and adapting strategies to new market dynamics.

Neşe: What’s the funniest or most unexpected thing that’s happened during your development process?

Goblin: The funniest part has been the name confusion. Many thought Goblin Finance was related to the famous GoblinTown NFT project on Ethereum. We’ve even been asked if we’d host late-night Twitter Spaces making goblin noises!

What we didn’t expect, however, was the overwhelming support from the community and other projects. Many protocols told us they were losing liquidity because users weren’t comfortable managing DeFi positions. They saw Goblin as a solution to retain users and simplify participation. That validation from peers was both unexpected and motivating.

Neşe: How does Goblin’s ALM make liquidity provision on Aptos easier or more profitable?

Goblin: Goblin’s Automated Liquidity Management (ALM) makes liquidity provision both easier and more profitable by:

• No manual rebalancing: Users no longer need to actively monitor and adjust ranges — Goblin automates it, saving time and reducing mistakes.

• Dynamic adaptation to volatility: The vaults react faster than manual LPing, concentrating liquidity in high-volume zones to maximize fee capture.

• Reduced impermanent loss: Volatility-aware ranges, skew controls, and guardrails minimize unnecessary IL while keeping exposure efficient.

• Automatic compounding: Fees are reinvested automatically, so APR turns into higher realized APY.

• Shared incentives across partners: Beyond trading fees, Goblin integrates directly with Hyperion and other ecosystem protocols to pass through incentives such as DRIPs, points, or partner rewards. This means users capture both market yield and ecosystem-level rewards in a single step.

In short, Goblin ALM lowers the barrier for new users while boosting profitability for experienced LPs, making liquidity on Aptos deeper, stickier, and more efficient.

Neşe: You’re also introducing upcoming products like Yield-Enhanced LSTs and delta-neutral strategies. Which of these do you believe will be the real game-changer for Aptos users, and why?

Goblin: For Goblin, the real breakthrough is not choosing one product over the other, but the synergy between yield-enhanced LSTs (goAPT) and delta-neutral strategies.

• goAPT turns APT into a yield-enhanced asset by combining base staking rewards with strategy fee-sharing, making it a more attractive building block for DeFi.

• Delta-neutral strategies deliver sustainable, low-volatility yield while channeling activity into perpetual DEXs and strengthening liquidity retention across Aptos.

The key is how they reinforce each other. goAPT can be deployed inside delta-neutral vaults to amplify returns, while the yield generated by those vaults flows back to goAPT holders. This cycle creates a compounding flywheel: more staking leads to stronger strategies, and stronger strategies enhance staking yields.

Neither product alone can unlock this effect — but together, they form the foundation of a self-sustaining yield layer for Aptos.

Neşe: What are your future plans?

Goblin: Our vision goes beyond individual products — we want Goblin to become the liquidity engine that underpins the Aptos economy.

1. Activate on-chain liquidity — through our vaults, we aim to transform idle APT, stablecoins, and even RWAs into productive assets, ensuring that capital on Aptos is always working.

2. Bridge Web2 and Web3 adoption — by packaging sophisticated strategies into simple, automated vaults, we lower the barrier for institutions and traditional users to participate in DeFi without needing advanced technical knowledge.

3. Strengthen stablecoin usage on Aptos — our strategies are designed to make stablecoin liquidity more efficient and more profitable, which not only benefits DeFi protocols but also supports broader ecosystem stability.

4. Collaborate across the ecosystem — by embedding Goblin vaults into other Aptos-native protocols, we help partners retain users and liquidity, and collectively build a more sustainable financial layer.

5. Open strategy marketplace — in the longer term, Goblin will allow external strategy teams to plug into our platform, creating a diversified yield marketplace that benefits all participants.

Ultimately, Goblin’s long-term plan is to be the universal yield layer that powers both institutional adoption and everyday DeFi participation — making Aptos the chain where liquidity is most efficiently and productively deployed.

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Thanks to Goblin Finance for sharing their journey with us on Move the Mic!

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