for the most part, to its inhabitants, crypto itself is the city and chains are just skyscrapers/ shopping centres with office space/ units inside of them that projects inhabit. some projects are big enough to be their own buildings. the vast majority of (real) users aren’t chain maximalists. they will go between different areas based on what’s hot and where others are/ where opportunity is, just like in the city analogy. over time certain districts are settling, though it’s more like market sectors - defi is manhattan type thing. things that happen here plug into the rest of the world more and more, just like business deals and finances happening in ny or tech happening in sf affect the world further than their catchment area. we have cultural districts, milady is probably brooklyn, and shitcoining is like going out to into the degenerate bar scene. but in the discussion of sticky network effects, it mostly seems moot and disconnected from what really underpins it. the network effects are mostly on the human layer. in the analogy, buildings and locations and dynamics of a city are part of it, but the way that humans interact with it are the defining story this is the truth though this isn’t a complete truth, and there’s a lot more nuance than can fit in a tweet