The"build in public" thing gets cringe sometimes but the underlying idea is right:
-> showing your work creates trust -> trust creates community -> community creates distribution.
It's a flywheel, most people skip the first step because they're scared of being wrong publicly.
It’s so true and simple to understand. If we want an app that is truly useful and can really break through, we need to focus on a problem, not on Web3 branding.
Web3 branding is useless and should be invisible, and that’s when we’ll get a mainstream app
The next killer web3 app won't have "web3" in its pitch deck.
@Venmo didn't sell you on ACH transfers. Coinbase's best bet rn is making the chain invisible.
That's the product gap nobody's filling yet.
You don't need a team of 20 to build something people care about, you need:
- a real problem
- someone willing to talk to 50 potential users before writing a line of code
- the patience to iterate
That’s why we can still say we are early in crypto, we are barely scratching the surface of all the innovations we can apply outside our ecosystem into everyday life
Web3 crossed $68B in early 2026.
A year ago people were calling it dead.
Four narratives are actually running this cycle: RWA tokenization, DePIN infrastructure, ZK proofs in production, and account abstraction.
None of them are hype but with real numbers behind them.
A good builder shouldn’t spend too much time looking at markets or price action
Especially when they’re focused on building a product/protocol that actually solves a real problem. Whether it’s a bear or bull market, if the product is solid, it will eventually find its market.
The projects that survive bear markets aren't the ones with the best marketing.
They're the ones where the devs kept shipping when nobody was watching. Always check github activity before you check token price.
meme coins get clowned on a lot. BUT here's what people miss.
A meme coin with a strong community is a coordination mechanism. People organize around it, build around it, hold through pain together.
Culture is a moat, always has been.
been saying this for a while: the next bull run won't be led by speculation. it'll be led by products people actually use.
@HyperliquidX is already living proof of that
The difference between a protocol worth watching and one that isn't:
Can it generate revenue without inflating its own token to do it? That's it, that's the whole checklist
Today, decentralized AI inference + on-chain execution is the combo nobody's pricing in yet.
Tbh this feels like early DeFi summer but for a combo AI+Blockchain
AI agents that can sign transactions onchain is not science fiction anymore and already something quite present.
It's being shipped and most people in crypto or finance haven't noticed yet so don't imagine about non user or normies.
Hot take for builder:
The "too complicated for normies" argument in crypto is mostly cope, for venmo was complicated in 2011.
Abstraction is a product problem, not a user problem
@Uniswap and @HyperliquidX did more in protocol fees last quarter than most traditional fintech startups did in revenue.
Still feels slept on by mainstream finance
1st tweet and most important, good protocols have three things : real revenue, real users, real team.
Most have zero of those. We're gonna talk about the ones that do! Only those one!