DECENTRALIZATION OR BUST

Summary from the TLDR Crypto newsletter

Today's “dead” crypto vibe is less about price and more about the industry forgetting its purpose. BTC is increasingly treated as a Wall Street ETF game. Much of crypto has been reduced to casino tokens rather than tools for censorship resistance and permissionless value transfer. If assets are custodial and centralized, they become as seizable as any bank IOU and drift toward ponzi-like dynamics where new buyers don't strengthen the network, only transfer wealth to early holders. Refocus relentlessly on decentralization and self-custody, avoid perps and degen trading with most of your net worth, hold a core stack of BTC/ETH/NFTs you truly value, keep working in the real world, and remember that most coins and JPEGs will go to zero, but the long game of decentralized systems is still worth playing.