I believe launchpads help Defi.Apart from what your friends said there is a Ventup launchpad that I discovered.Ventup is its unique centralized – decentralized finance (CeDeFi) model – aiming to combine the best of both worlds, the security of a centralized platform and the great investment opportunities of a DeFi platform.Launchpads that offer all these possibilities such as Ventup will definitely help defi.