Yesterday, a big guy in the Chinese circle asked me: Is MegaETH a layer 1 or layer 2 protocol? To be honest, it's been a long time since anyone asked me this question. By 2025, the competition between chains will no longer be a contest of technical parameters: whether it is a layer 1 or layer 2, what virtual machines to use, and which data availability scheme to connect. These problems have become insignificant in the face of "whether you can launch a popular app". (Even Solana founder Anatoly tweeted that they were competing with Mega.) ） And the decisive factor in producing popular applications and being able to continuously produce popular applications is people. Those who really promote the ecology usually have several qualities: - Have the determination to cross the bull and bear - Have the courage to put down your body and accept market information - Ability to pivot constantly - Have the silly confidence to make lap projects To this end, we have created a special project called Superstar Mafia. You could say it's an accelerator, but I feel like it's more like a mini-universe: A group of ambitious and talented people come together to collide, challenge each other, and encourage each other. There is no standard answer here, and every prototype can be accommodated. For the past year, we've worked together in Berlin and Chiang Mai, brainstorming, and staying up late to code. Incubated 15 Omega projects from scratch with a total funding of more than $50 million (more than Mega itself). Feel free to follow @0xmegamafia to learn about the mafia's projects and members. Of course, it has not been all smooth sailing for the mafia this year. Strongly bound to an ecosystem, just like falling in love or getting married, there will always be itchy times, and there will be people who part ways. But there's one thing we've always insisted on: build together and win together. This year we chose three cities as new destinations – and spent a lot of time visiting: Copenhagen: Experience the beauty of the Nordic summer Tokyo: Silly two-dimensional with Mega New York: The world capital of the currency world Although the location has changed, our original intention has always been the same: to find a group of like-minded friends (AKA brainless people who believe that the cryptocurrency circle will eventually rule the world) and work together on the chain to make interesting and useful explosive products. omega