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Believe in something On a truly permissionless network like Solana, it's up to us - the community - to self regulate and reject bad actors. In practice, this means not giving attention and capital to tourists and extractors. Instead -- invest in founders, communities, and products that add value and genuinely innovate. Extraction from projects like Libra remind me of the end of the 2021 Solana NFT boom - but isn't unique to Solana. Ethereum had its ICO scams too. In both cases, these growing pains don't make the underlying tech or community bad. I'm confident the Solana ecosystem will figure it out, and will be stronger for it. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger - but please don't kill YOURSELVES. That's essentially what you're doing when you support these projects IMO. Instead, focus on people building cool shit. With more sensible US regulations coming, I'm hopeful we'll see renewed focus on utility tokens and RWAs. Love seeing @jupiterexchange and @RaydiumProtocol already experimenting with buybacks and forms of revenue sharing - creating real economic alignment between businesses and communities. The Solana ecosystem is massive now, and I'm pumped to see the product growth overall. Cool DeFi products like @uselulo and @deficarrot's stablecoin yield aggregators and @perena's stablecoin pools. A fire perps aggregator from @ranger_finance. DePINs like @Hivemapper and hardware like @solanamobile challenging tech giant incumbents, or @Gradient_HQ and @kuzco_xyz incentivizing decentralized compute. Sick games like @nyanheroes and @br1infinite. Creators making a living through @drip_haus, @mallowdotart, and @foster_protocol. Real-world payments via @kast_official. Seamless fiat bridges from @sphere_labs and @fusewallet. Even Franklin Templeton using the network for tokenized money market funds. There's nothing bad about trading inherently. The step function increase in mobile onboarding is a delight from apps like @moonshot. And the network UX has improved immensely thanks to the hard work of engineers at @anza_xyz, @jito_labs, and @jump_firedancer. A few extractors doesn't have to make or break us as a community - but we have a lot of work to do. Yes have fun trading, but maybe stop idolizing making it in 15 minutes and recognize the people working their asses off to further the industry and making great apps. TDLR: support cracked founders, not extractors. BELIEVE IN SOMETHING.