Today, you can go from 0 to a real web3 product in 90 days.
And not a polished vc-backed thing, but something real, you need: one clear use case, a few people who care, and the willingness to ship ugly.
The rest comes from feedback.
Something underappreciated about Ethereum in 2026:
- L2 transactions now cost $0.001โ$0.05, so down 90%+ from 2023 levels
- 32M+ ETH staked, 1M+ active validators $158B+ in stablecoins sitting on Ethereum rails
So the price is down but the network is at all-time high usage.
Yes, I quite agree, and today people talk about crypto not being adopted because itโs not useful or whatever.
But in reality, itโs mainly due to questionable marketing that doesnโt highlight the right things and an even weaker UX/UI
hot take: the best onboarding UX in crypto rn is Coinbase's.
no seed phrase, email login, gasless txs on Base. it's not decentralized but it's real adoption. the tradeoff is worth being honest about.
I find it so real, and itโs always the case, who would have said 2 years ago that our two most powerful protocols today would be @Polymarket and @HyperliquidX
Everyone is chasing the next L1 but the real alpha right now might just be in boring infrastructure.
Modular chains, data availability layers, settlement networks.
The apps that will matter in 2028 are being built on top of things most people cannot even name today.
memes are not a joke.
They are literally the most efficient form of community building ever invented.
If your project has no meme culture, you don't have a community. You have a telegram group.
Beenspending time on @base lately.
The ecosystem is actually growing in a real way, not just memes (though the memes are great), but actual apps, actual users, actual devs.
@coinbase quietly built something here.
The secret to a strong web3 project isn't the tech.
It's the people who show up before there's any money in it.
Community doesn't follow success; community creates success.