If you are still here, building, learning, and contributing, you are very likely not the problem.
You are the immune system of this space.
And in my view, that matters more than ever, because crypto has reached its lowest point.
Not in price. Structurally.
My followers know it:
Price discovery and narratives are now concentrated on a handful of Web2 platforms.
Binance dictates liquidity and market structure. CoinMarketCap, also owned by Binance, controls visibility and perceived relevance.
Paid KOLs with hundreds of thousands or millions of followers dominate attention.
“Investigators” and scam exposers who are funded by Binance stay conveniently silent when it comes to Binance itself.
X shapes perception and sentiment, while its owner appears increasingly detached from reality and, for months now, seems to tweet anything but truth.
Hate, manipulation, and lies outperform facts.
And the crypto beginner ends up caught in the crossfire or, in the worst case, becomes radicalized.
At the same time, people idolize manipulators like CZ or pure extractors like jakegagain and the bromance crew.
Influence is confused with integrity. Reach is confused with value. Loudness replaced competence. Marketing replaced merit.
People do not even know what organic means anymore. They see something under 200k market cap and instantly label it bad. No millions in volume? Bad. No constant hype? Bad. In reality, those are often the strongest signals that something is actually healthy. Quiet growth.
Real users. No artificial demand. Organic has been conditioned out of people’s perception.
Dexscreener, arguably the most used DEX UI, generates revenue by pushing countless scams every single day through paid boosts, or by charging hundreds of dollars just to swap a JPEG.
The incentive is not safety or quality. The incentive is volume. No matter the damage.
I will not even start on the Trump family and its administration. You all know it. You have seen my highlights.
Monopolists have taken over.
Narratives are no longer organic. They are engineered. Coordinated. Paid for. Entire “movements” appear overnight, backed by capital, amplified by algorithms, dead a few months later. Builders drown while grifters rotate to the next story.
Education lost against engagement farming.
Truth lost against reach. Nuance lost against rage bait.
These are only a few examples out of thousands. We have never been this centralized. We have never been this dependent. We have never been this constrained.
Small group of entities now decides what is visible, what is liquid, what narratives dominate, and which projects survive. Systemic capture.
The space feels sick because it is sick. Infected by extraction models, short term incentives, and narrative control. Innovation has slowed. Ethics have eroded.
Trust has become a commodity. Many people left because they felt this rot, even if they could not fully put it into words.
Those who remain and still build are operating against this gravity. They resist algorithmic truth. They question artificial consensus. They protect technical integrity in an environment that rewards obedience, noise, and compliance.
This is why the immune system matters now more than ever. Not to pump prices, but to prevent a total collapse of values. Systems only recover when enough participants refuse corruption and return to fundamentals.
We are at a structural bottom.
And only from here can something honest emerge again.
Let’s not mess this up, please.
