For a while, skeptics asked what $DCR's raison d'être was.
Sure, @placeholdervc had put out that "Decred’s killer feature is good governance, and with good governance, you can have any feature you want," but what feature(s) was @decredproject providing the world?
IMO the turning point for people realizing @decredproject's ability to bring valuable services to the world was #DCRDEX, which has seen rapid uptake as a privacy-preserving, hard-money #DEX: dex.decred.org
To date, @BalancerLabs has not been the flashiest of the AMMs, but it is beloved by builders for allowing them to build a vast array of liquidity pools to solve pressing problems.
Developers are sticky and grow independent dependence.
Over time @BalancerLabs will find itself at the center of more & more pivotal liquidity experiments.
The launch of its V2, which will allow for customizable AMM logic, and pools to be used for both exchange & lending, will only turbocharge the trend: medium.com/balancer-proto…
The biggest threat to #crypto's current bull market in not crypto petering out, but another destabilization in the macro markets, maybe led by cracks in the mania of US equities:
I, too, want to believe in December 2021 being the top of this #crypto bull, just as December was the top in 2013 and 2017.
But when people get too comfortable in patterns is when those patterns change. History doesn't repeat, it rhymes.