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…