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CarolinaCowboy🇮🇹 retweeted
It’s like… the doomers completely missed that blockchain was never a “flip the switch overnight” revolution—it was always going to be messy, iterative, and yes, full of speculation to bootstrap real infrastructure.
They somehow act like every token raise was just “retail exit liquidity” while ignoring the trillions in actual economic activity it unlocked: DeFi TVL hitting all-time highs, on-chain settlement volumes rivaling Visa in peak moments, and protocols that actually ship products instead of just whitepapers.
Now, nobody “cares” about governance or gas? Tell that to DAOs that vote on billion-dollar treasuries, L2s that dropped fees from $50 to $0.01, or chains where gas is literally the incentive layer keeping validators honest. Greater fools theory? Sure, same as the early internet where Pets.com funded the fiber that powers Amazon today.
The original point of blockchain wasn’t “zero middlemen in 5 years”—it was creating unstoppable alternatives that force the legacy system to compete or die.
And despite the noise:
1. 3-day ACH is still around… but stablecoins now move $10T+ annually with finality in seconds, no weekends, no banks gatekeeping your own money.
2. Massive interchange fees persist… yet DEX aggregators and intent-based routing are eating their lunch, with on-chain swaps at fractions of a penny while Visa’s moat cracks under the pressure.
3. Digital asset “credit cards” started as wrappers… but now they’re evolving into native on-ramps with cashback in yield-bearing stables, bridging TradFi rails to DeFi without the full intermediary tax.
4. Yields are .3% in checking… meanwhile DeFi lending protocols pay 4-15%+ on the same stables (and regulators aren’t “banning” it—they’re scrambling to catch up because the yields are real economic signal).
Very little accomplished? Bro, we got Bitcoin ETFs, tokenized Treasuries from BlackRock, Hyperliquid-style perpetuals with zero counterparty risk, and real equity tokenization pilots that HOOD wishes it could copy. Stablecoins were the gateway drug, not the endpoint.
Maybe you all have bad performance by chasing the same 10 L2 memes or maxis yelling “number go up” while ignoring the actual primitives: zero-knowledge scaling, cross-chain intents, and RWAs that turn illiquid assets into programmable money.
It’s not about “monetizing degeneracy from meme coins.” It’s about funding the next wave of disruptors—like native on-chain exchanges that obsolete Robinhood, bridges that make off-ramps instant and cheap, or protocols that make 0.3% checking accounts look like a joke from the 1990s.
Plenty of alpha still exists if you’re not doom-scrolling the same echo chamber. The vision didn’t get lost—it just got decentralized, rugged a few times, and came back stronger. The middlemen aren’t gone yet… but they’re sweating for the first time in decades.
It's like... Hedge Funds/VCs suddenly forgot what blockchain was ever supposed to do?
They somehow turned digital assets into:
Token raise -> retail exit liquidity on repeat.
Now, nobody cares anymore about "governance or gas" tokens since it's greater fools theory from printed money.
The original point of blockchain is removing as many middlemen as possible, and as a byproduct, the fees.
Despite all of this:
1. 3 Day ACH rails are still around... Even though we have payment rails for 0 cents.
2. Massive interchange is still around... despite having payment rails at 0 cents...
3. Digital Asset "Credit Cards" are just more friction-add wrappers around Visa/Mastercard.
4. Yields are still .3% in checking accounts and now laws are trying to bank stablecoin related yields.
Very little that digital assets set out to do actually got accomplished, aside from Stablecoins?
Maybe you all have bad performance by just blindly following the next L2 exchange token or blindly into Ethereum.
It's not about making money from token prices going up + monetizing degeneracy from meme coins.
It's to be funding any legitimate disruptors, like the next $HOOD/Hyperliquid (Tokenization, on-chain equities), Bridge (stablecoin off-ramps/intercharge), etc.
0 alpha from the vast majority of folks in that space, because everyone there lost vision on what it was originally supposed to do.
CarolinaCowboy🇮🇹 retweeted
“Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards! This is your life and mine!"
The Trump Administration must take this attitude
Antifa and all the connected NGOs/donors/militias must be liquidated. ~40 million illegals must be deported. 55 million visas must be cancelled. Trillions of dollars of industry must be reshored. A great many foreign conflicts must be stayed out of. The flow of fentanyl must be stopped
We have real enemies. We face existential threats and problems. We need that seriousness. We need that iron
Hey, @grok, who was the most famous person to visit my profile? It doesn't need to be a mutual, don't tag them, just say who it was. o7
