DeFi Builder 🔧 | Senior Software Engineer 💻 | Animal Rescuer 🐾

Building tools for financial freedom.

Currently:
• Lead Engineer at CryptoLabs Research (DeFi Buddy - 6,000+ members)
• Founder of Snuggle (zero-swap LP management)
• Co-founder of Karma Farm Sanctuary 🐶

On this channel:
Code reviews • DeFi deep dives • Founder interviews

I've built hospital monitoring systems, payment platforms for thousands of healthcare facilities, and now DeFi tools used by thousands. I share what I learn along the way.

Thanks for being here.


YaBonks

🎉 WE JUST CROSSED $2 MILLION IN TVL 🎉

Look at this chart. Snuggle, plus MaxFi running on our rebalancing tech, just passed $2,000,000 in total value locked. That screenshot is straight from DeFi Llama, live.

We turned this on back in February. It's July. Five months to go from a flat line to two million, and along the way we've paid more than $326,000 in fees and rewards straight back to the people providing liquidity, across Base and Arbitrum.

None of this happens without you. Every LP who deposited, everyone who showed up to an AMA, asked a question, sent a friend our way, or just believed we were onto something early. This is your milestone as much as ours.

We are only getting warmed up! 🔥

What is coming next:
- More Agent Max intelligence and new pools
- More chains and more partners
- More ways to earn and compound your bags
- Bigger numbers on that chart

Thank you for being here early!

Alex 'YaBonks' Walch
Founder of Snuggle and MaxFi

5 days ago | [YT] | 19

YaBonks

You all told me the same thing over and over: "Alex, my position keeps sitting out of range and it's driving me crazy."

So I built the fix.

Agent Max now gives you a second tier of settings on every pool — user-friendly ones that keep you in range 80-95% of the time while still landing you on a monster accumulator. A little wider, a shorter delay, way more time actually earning.

DAO King and I spent 52 minutes walking every pool — WETH/cbBTC, SOL/WETH, AERO/cbBTC (24.5x cover!), AAVE/WETH, VVV/WETH, CAKE/WETH — with the exact settings, plus the AERO and CAKE flywheels and the alligator strategy for rotating into correlated pairs before the run.

📺 Watch: https://youtu.be/aCbueJxRuvU
📝 Article: www.snuggle.fi/videos/best-bull-run-lp-pairs-snugg…

Try it: maxfi.tech/deposit or snuggle.fi/deposit (same protocol, same pools)

Not financial advice. All numbers are backtested/live snapshots. IL is minimized, not eliminated.

1 week ago | [YT] | 3

YaBonks

📺 The most complete AMA we've done on the correlated-pair accumulator playbook just went live — 1 hour 19 minutes with ‪@DADSDefiSpace‬, ‪@YaBonks‬, and DAO King ‪@PassiveIncome-Lab‬.

What's covered:

▸ A brand new SOL/WETH PancakeSwap pool Agent Max just surfaced — 239% APR over 2.5 days, 3% range, 52-hour delay, zero rebalances
▸ DAO King's existing uSOL/WETH Aerodrome position (40 days in, ~200% sustained, 4% range / 9h delay)
▸ The $14K → $180K accumulator math (1y, 2y, 2x and 3x scenarios on screen)
▸ Why dollar-value LP dashboards are wrong — think in tokens
▸ The 5 hidden costs that quietly kill LP returns everywhere else
▸ Bitcoin 4-year cycle / rainbow chart — why Nov 2025-Nov 2026 is THE accumulation window
▸ Dynamic DCA framework from DeFi Dad — scale aggression up as the market falls
▸ Alex's last cycle: $50K → $250K (5x) on correlated-pair LP farming
▸ Agent Max as a productized intelligence layer — seed sale closed, presale at 3x. One-click copy-trade portfolio coming.
▸ HyperEVM rollout next, BSC after
▸ Why TVL is flowing INTO Snuggle/MaxFi (2-3-4x growth) while every other LP platform is losing 70-80% TVL this bear

This is the long-form, definitive AMA. Every shorter clip on the channel is a cut from this conversation. Pin it. Share it with anyone asking "why correlated pairs?" or "what's Agent Max?" — single best primer.

📺 Watch: https://youtu.be/eq_VKt-LjtI
📝 Full strategy article: www.snuggle.fi/videos/correlated-pairs-bear-market…

Start accumulating:
• Snuggle (unstaked auto-compounded LP fees): snuggle.fi/deposit
• MaxFi (staked AERO version): maxfi.tech/deposit

💬 Snuggle Discord (22-pair drops happen here): discord.gg/tfpsdwEe8e
💬 MaxFi Discord: discord.gg/fjNY8UzYAc

Not financial advice. 239%/92%/180% are snapshots and modeled projections. DeFi involves impermanent loss and smart contract risk.

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 4

YaBonks

📺 New 15-min clip from DAO King — the cleanest primer we've put out on why MaxFi structurally out-earns manual LP farming.

The three features broken down:

▸ No-swap rebalancing: a single $2,500 swap on a major pool costs ~$10 in fees. Multiply by 60+ rebalances per year on a $5K LP and you're paying $2,400/year in pure friction. MaxFi rebuilds positions at the new range without ever touching the AMM through a swap. Zero swap fees, zero slippage, zero price impact, zero MEV.

▸ Rebalance delay: DAO King watched 60-70% of his SOL/WETH positions go out of range during a SOL pump. Did nothing. Within 2-3 hours all of them came back into range. No rebalance ever fired, no impermanent loss locked in. A swap-based system would have rebalanced at the peak AND on the way back down — paying the swap stack twice for nothing.

▸ Cover ratio: Agent Max prices every pool against impermanent loss explicitly. SOL/WETH moderate pays back $3.38 in fees for every $1 of IL. The 40% wide conservative setting has a 50x cover ratio with near-zero IL. Most LP farmers don't know this metric exists, which is why their long-term net returns disappoint.

The accumulator math hits at the end: $14K in SOL/WETH at the conservative 75% APR target turns into $58K (1y, 2x), $120K (2y, 2x), $180K (2y, 3x). DAO King's older positions are running 130%+ APR, so 75% is the floor not the ceiling.

📺 Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB904...
📺 Full 34-min walkthrough (includes 4-year cycle section): https://youtu.be/gFSNtC7YMUk
📝 Strategy article: www.maxfi.tech/videos/maxfi-explained-no-swap-reba…

Start accumulating:
• Snuggle (unstaked auto-compounded LP fees): snuggle.fi/deposit
• MaxFi (staked AERO version): maxfi.tech/deposit

💬 Snuggle Discord: discord.gg/tfpsdwEe8e

Not financial advice. Cover ratios and APRs are snapshot/modeled at recording. DeFi risk applies.

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 3

YaBonks

📺 New 3-minute clip — the bull case for Agent Max.

DAO King walks through what Agent Max's portfolio actually does when you scale it: a $2M Agent Max portfolio running through even a mediocre bull cycle compounds into $10-20M. The "you're probably not bullish enough" line is doing a lot of work here, because the math behind it is structural — not vibes.

What this clip covers:
✅ Agent Max as the intelligence layer on top of Snuggle/MaxFi (daily Optima sweep across thousands of pools)
✅ 22 wealth-builder pairs rolling out Monday — bucketed for diversification
✅ $14K → 2-10x over 2 years at the conservative 130-150% APR estimate (well below current 289% snapshot)
✅ $2M portfolio → $10-20M math on a mediocre bull cycle
✅ Why SOL/ETH and Snuggle's no-swap rebalancing make these rates structurally possible

For the full strategy (exact pool settings, 120-day back-test, 22-pair bucket breakdown) → watch the 40-min AMA on @yabonks or read the strategy article on snuggle.fi.

📺 This clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlSHZ...
📺 Full AMA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTA4L...
📝 Strategy article: www.snuggle.fi/videos/wealth-builder-pairs-sol-wet…

Snuggle: snuggle.fi/deposit
MaxFi: maxfi.tech/deposit

Discord servers (22-pair drops happen here):
Snuggle Discord: discord.gg/tfpsdwEe8e
MaxFi Discord: discord.gg/fjNY8UzYAc

Not financial advice. Bull-run math is illustrative based on stated assumptions and 4-year-cycle history. DeFi risk applies.

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 3

YaBonks

📺 New AMA just dropped — SOL/WETH at 289% APR + the 22-pair portfolio Agent Max is rolling out next.

Sat down with Dao King at ‪@PassiveIncome-Lab‬ for the full breakdown. SOL/WETH on Snuggle and MaxFi is paying a 289% APR snapshot right now — and even at the steady-state 130-150% APR, this is the most aggressive correlated-pair accumulator we've ever positioned into.

What we cover:
✅ SOL/WETH 92% correlated over 120 days — tighter than ETH/BTC
✅ Agent Max's exact settings: 4% wide / 9-hour delay (moderate preset)
✅ Back-test: 97% annualized vs HODL, 137% fees, 4.7x cover over IL
✅ $14K → $147-180K over a 2-year cycle (correlated LP math)
✅ The 5 hidden costs of swap-based rebalancing that make these rates impossible elsewhere
✅ Two flavors of the same pool: MaxFi (staked AERO) + Snuggle (unstaked auto-compound)
✅ 22 more wealth-builder pairs rolling out next — bucketed across blue-chip majors, large-cap DeFi, AI agent mid-caps, and a stablecoin reserve

MaxFi + Snuggle now hold over 1/3 of the SOL/WETH pool TVL. Early enough to matter, big enough that liquidity isn't a problem.

Watch 👇 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTA4L...

MaxFi → maxfi.tech/deposit
Snuggle → snuggle.fi/deposit
MaxFi Discord → discord.gg/fjNY8UzYAc
Snuggle Discord → discord.gg/tfpsdwEe8e

Not financial advice. APR is a snapshot at recording. Live APRs move with volume and rewards. DeFi involves IL and smart contract risk.

3 weeks ago (edited) | [YT] | 4

YaBonks

One of my favorite DeFi educators, Dads DeFi Space, just wrote an article about Snuggle and MaxFi on his website! www.dadsdefispace.org/post/snuggle-fi-deep-dive-ha…

I've literally followed his website for years, so I consider this a huge honor. Many years ago he even wrote one of the most popular articles about the snuggle rebalancing technique and how to do it manually. This was long before Snuggle existed.

I'm in disbelief right now that we're getting this kind of attention from big names that I respect in the DeFi space.

He really knows his stuff about concentrated liquidity management, and this article is full of great insights. He's even running positions on Snuggle and documenting the journey!

If you aren't following ‪@DADSDefiSpace‬ on YouTube, X, and his website, go subscribe, follow, etc. He's one of the smartest guys out here and has been dropping gems for years.

You have to read this article!

www.dadsdefispace.org/post/snuggle-fi-deep-dive-ha…

2 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 8

YaBonks

Snuggle just hit $500k+ TVL! This makes us the #20 biggest Liquidity Manager in all of DeFi and Crypto according to DeFi Llama. We went from essentially $0 to over $500,000 in two months! THANK YOU!

This is the combined TVL (total value locked) of Snuggle.fi and MaxFi.Tech that both run on my Snuggle smart contracts that use my automated snuggle rebalancing technology for maximum capital efficiency.

Both have amazing, thriving communities on Discord with people sharing their winning strategies using Snuggle technology. Links to the Discords are on the Snuggle and MaxFi websites. Go join the Discord communities and see all the winning strategies!

I'm so grateful to all our users and supporters. Two years ago I never would have believed that I would invent a ground-breaking financial technology that completely revolutionizes concentrated liquidity management.

Hearing your stories about Snuggle changing your lives is one of the most rewarding things I have experienced. Many of you have shown me that you are making more money by providing liquidity on Snuggle and MaxFi than from your day jobs. That's incredible!

Thank you to everyone who believed in me and helped me get here. This is only the beginning. I am going to work hard to grow Snuggle into the biggest and best liquidity manager in the world.

We are well on our way to $1 million in TVL. All aboard! 🚀

Thank you,

Alex 'YaBonks' Walch
Founder of Snuggle, MaxFi and Karma Farm Sanctuary

2 months ago | [YT] | 18

YaBonks

📺 New AMA just dropped with Dao King ‪@Crypto_Circus‬.

We cover the Russian Doll Strategy — stacking tight, medium, and wide LP ranges on the same pair so you're always earning — and a blue-chip ADA/BTC pool on Aerodrome paying 256% APR at a 5% range.

Plus:
✅ Valves Security audit results (zero critical, zero high, zero medium)
✅ MaxFi TVL crossing $423K, doubling month-over-month
✅ How I'm scaling my $20K portfolio ($4K/month) toward $100K ($10K+/month)
✅ Agent Max tokenomics: 50/50 buyback & burn + auto-compound flywheel

Watch 👇 https://youtu.be/rgPMpwSKg4Y

Links:
MaxFi → maxfi.tech/
Snuggle → snuggle.fi/
MaxFi Discord → discord.gg/fjNY8UzYAc

Subscribe to ‪@SnuggleFi‬ on YouTube so you don't miss anything!

2 months ago | [YT] | 4

YaBonks

Sat down with Dao King for a full AMA. No script, no filter. He asked everything.

How zero-swap rebalancing actually works. Why single-position architecture makes flash loan attacks impossible. The fee model. The double snuggle technique. My portfolio split. Real numbers.

$200-250/day between Snuggle and MaxFi. 15% fee on earnings only, you keep 85%.

This is the most in-depth technical breakdown I've done.

TOOLS:
Start earning (blue chip): snuggle.fi/
Start earning (degen): maxfi.tech/

CONNECT:
Twitter/X (SnuggleFi): twitter.com/SnuggleFi
Twitter/X (me): x.com/YaBonksOfficial
Twitter/X (MaxFi): x.com/MaxFinanceTech
Discord (SnuggleFi): discord.gg/tfpsdwEe8e
Discord (MaxFi): discord.gg/fjNY8UzYAc
Telegram: t.me/SnuggleFi
YouTube (SnuggleFi): youtube.com/@SnuggleFi

4 months ago | [YT] | 3