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Great article. There is a lot of good stuff happening. It is the uncertainty of especially US politics / regulation (need for bipartisan support for innovation) and the perception of it just being a speculative asset class that is hitting the market over and over again and now it is Telegram. Keep building for the future.

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great post as always! Just wanted to point out that the screenshot about Polymarket being earlier than the news is misleading. Polymarket was using a diff timezone, not sure which one though.

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love the positive sentiment. lots of good things going on!

there is generally (and to some degree rightfully so) negative sentiment. which largely stems from the fact that we all held this value that decentralization would make this world a better place for so and so reasons. defi was promised to tackle skewed nature of markets. deso was supposed to make our data secure. crypto was supposed to be a hedge against dollar. none of that is playing out. so philosophically speaking, we have lost the way. and if we aren't aligned on values, then what's the point of progress?

but maybe aligning on values is not the right way to approach this. maybe we should not be sold on why crypto is such a revolution. but rather what works better today. crypto does provide transparency. defi does make good APR. deso has more open nature. we'd all be better off if we take a more technologist-centric perspective than become value-driven. and the technology works right now. we'll see where it leads us in the future. and i think that's what this article hints that too.

as u pointed out in the beginning: price leads sentiment. which the main issue. so maybe let's not pay attention to price? is that too much to ask?

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