## The Other Side of Crypto Adventures: Why We Should Not Give Up Lightly

**When Fatigue Becomes a Collective Symptom**

Recently, a strange collective emotion has been sweeping through the crypto industry—a sense of loss. From endless airdrop watch parties, project launch monitoring, narrative chasing and panic selling, to unpaid community labor, many participants have begun to question: What are we really doing? This exhaustion is not personal weakness but is triggered by systemic structural issues.

The inherent contradictions within the crypto industry are hard to ignore: the narrative lifecycle is often shorter than the product itself; hype surpasses fundamental research; speculative speed far outpaces development progress; hero worship and collective skepticism intertwine; many projects ultimately do not fail but disappear silently. This is not an individual problem but an industry syndrome.

**What to Believe Is More Important Than Who to Believe**

But when we peel back the surface, a deeper question emerges: "What do we truly believe in?"

We do not believe that project teams will remain loyal forever; we do not trust the promises of any celebrity KOLs; we are even more skeptical of cyclical narrative cycles. Yet it is precisely this skepticism of illusions that guides us back to the purest belief—the significance of cryptocurrencies in reshaping the human financial system.

As industry hype diminishes and bubbles deflate, those who choose to stay believe in another world: a system of assets that does not rely on central authorities, does not depend on power violence, and is not dependent on any single entity.

**From 2008 to Now: The Power of Original Intent**

Opening the Bitcoin white paper, the first sentence remains striking: "A purely peer-to-peer electronic cash system."

That was 2008, when the wreckage of the financial crisis was still smoldering. Banks failed, politicians and financiers made the world pay for their greed. Bitcoin was not created to generate wealth but to answer an ancient question: Can humans establish a monetary system that does not depend on any centralized authority?

Fifteen years later, no one can shut down Bitcoin, change it, or destroy it. This feature is more precious today than ever before.

With global inflation becoming the new normal, sovereign debt soaring, asset shortages worsening, and financial oppression everywhere—these realities precisely demonstrate that the vision of the crypto industry has never gone out of date; in fact, it has become more urgent.

**Proof in Practice: Crypto Is Already Changing the World**

Don’t just listen to declarations—see what is actually happening:

In countries with high inflation, crypto has become a daily financial tool. Argentina’s stablecoin trading volume accounts for up to 61.8%; people in Venezuela and Turkey use Bitcoin to counter currency devaluation; millions who cannot access banking systems have, for the first time, access to global assets. For freelancers, digital nomads, and cross-border traders, USDT is their real usable "digital dollar."

Traditional financial institutions have changed their attitude. Almost all of the top 20 global funds have established Web3 divisions; institutional players like BlackRock, Fidelity, CME are entering one after another; US digital asset ETFs have set new records for capital inflows. Central banks at the national level are beginning to reference Bitcoin models to design their own digital currencies. In just 15 years, Bitcoin has entered the top ten global financial assets.

These are not empty words—they are changes that are already happening.

**Why It’s Not a Waste: The Internet Gave Us the Answer**

Someone asked: If after 15 years all blockchains disappear, projects vanish, and protocols are replaced, isn’t our current effort just a waste?

Look at the early history of the Internet. In 2000, NASDAQ plummeted 78%, thousands of online companies went bankrupt; in 1995, Amazon was mocked as a "book-selling website"; in 1998, Google was considered inferior to Yahoo; in 2006, social networks were seen as "teenage rebellion."

Early BBS, portal sites, dial-up internet, paid email—these all disappeared today. About 90% of the first-generation mobile internet products did not survive. But they were not wasted.

The infrastructure they created—browsers, TCP/IP, server architectures, compilers—laid the foundation for everything that followed: Facebook, Google, Apple, cloud computing, AI. The development history of social networks is one of constant fragmentation and reorganization; TikTok is built on the foundations of countless now-extinct products.

Every generation of technology is replaced by the next, but no generation is useless. All foundational industries have experienced chaos, bubbles, trial and error, and misunderstandings before ultimately changing the world.

**Not the End, But the Foundation**

The technological evolution of the crypto industry has never been a task that a single generation can complete.

Even if in the future Ethereum is replaced by other public chains, Layer 2 is rewritten with new architectures, or today’s DEXs all disappear, these efforts will not be in vain. Because what we provide is the underlying soil, samples of trial and error, system parameters, social experiments, path dependencies—and a reservoir of experience for the future.

We are not seeking an endpoint itself.

And you are never alone. Millions of developers, researchers, fund managers, node operators, builders, and traders are slowly but steadily pushing forward. A fusion of technology and finance is subtly changing the global financial structure.

This era needs adventurers who do not trust humanity but believe in systems and technology. If you are still on the road, then we are too.