Wild how my vision of what blockchain "should be" has evolved since 2014. Excitement, confusion, despair, envy, disillusionment, acceptance, now moving on to full love. At the end of the day, nothing but respect and love to everyone in the space — we’re all just doing our best and I think we are just getting started. Even love to the scammers, playing a crucial role in hardening our systems. But good lord have we come far. Just look at the progression of what we could build on chain from each market cycle. 2013 Bitcoin, neat can only hodl, no buidl @coinbase onboarding was hard, but got us going, @epicenterbtc to learn chain things with @crainbf @seb3point0 2017 Ethereum prime time: Now we can do ICOs (that's about it) @ethstatus @GnosisDAO @golemproject Truffle for playing with raw solidity, @ShapeShift for first ETH swaps. No indexers, no apps, just ICOs and a dream. 2020 @opensea @cryptovoxels @TrustWallet proved out interoperability connecting NFTs, DeFi farming hype @Uniswap @aave @CurveFinance but that was about it, still extremely hard to build a dapp, only could use @graphprotocol and it was still very beta, ETH gas spikes to $2k to deploy a simple NFT contract, dapp builders scatter go to @0xPolygon @avax @solana @NEARProtocol some have to completely rebuild from scratch, wallets struggles to make network switching easy for users. 2022 @MagicEden first PMF outside EVM. Infra boom everyone building indexer solutions because TheGraph could not scale for bigger apps. Still very hard to build anything. 2024-2025 @base proving EVM L2s are a thing. @SuiNetwork enters with a twist. This is the first bull market (if it bulls) where building a dapp on any chain does not take a rocket scientist to ship. Now that AI is entering and infra is more or less sorted, connecting the two, I am a happy human to be in the middle of it all... If you have been here awhile, this is not the time to burnout with Trump news, it's time to suck it up. Maybe you are on your 3rd burnout, I have had a few myself, but when you stop looking at how fake most of it is (we know most of the numbers are BS) and focus on the real progress, that's the attitude adjustment that pulls me out. Yes, it feels like we lost the cyberpunk ethos back in Berlin in 2018, but it's time to put the game face on. We have the whole word watching, and we have the real power to divert control from the banks that pulled $12.1 Billion from American's alone in one year 2024 that leverage your money 15:1 giving you 2% interest. Blockchain is absolutely unstoppable at this point and all the chains and tribal communities should just pop their heads out of their bubble, mix mingle, we are all on the same team. Root everyones wins because they are your wins too regardless if you own the token. I will try and do this more myself, as I said I have been on an arc. Build, ship, lean, repeat. Never give up.