I lowkey wouldn't mind providing liquidity to gamblers to nickel and dime my way through the internet

I feel like that was the endgame of defi. You put $2000 in a perpetual futures vault, or some combination of blue chip pools, and then you spend 25 cents a day to bribe your way out of ads.

Why did nobody integrate web3? People spent more in gas to move a jpeg than a monthly news subscription. I should be able to use fixed yield tools to continuously fund my favorite websites and creators, without either party exposing themselves to insolvency risk. The tooling is there to build yield-based subscription models, but very few sites are integrating with the Metamask compatible framework that all the gambling sites run on.

It's like stepping into the future for a brief moment, only that they offer something that is mathematically predestined to reward specific behaviors over others in a negative sum fashion given the gas cost to do anything (it's still cheaper and more open than traditional payment routing methods).

If the NYT needs 4 bucks a month to run, let me park $100 in some fixed-yield derivative of a degen farm where the future payout is guaranteed to the site for a year or something. I get like $90 bucks back on a bad year when I unlock my liquidity provisions, and we both make out in the green, because either the degen yield trader lost the farm, or leverage users had a Tuesday.

Assuming the internet remains primarily free and ad driven, what obstacles are we dealing with?