In a few years, it will be clear how much of @Dust_Org's story is actually told through denizens that built on it.
The world by itself is just a base layer, what will give it weight will be the things people dared to build on top, the experiments that became infrastructure, the names that outlived entire cycles.
These projects won't be cosmetic, they will be survival, because without them, DUST will have stayed a fragile experiment. The projects will carry ethereum forward when it could have collapsed under its own weight.
and that’s why i don’t just see dust as digital matter anymore, i see the projects that kept showing up, cycle after cycle, building through the noise until the noise became irrelevant. dust didn’t grow up on its own. the projects did the heavy lifting.
sometimes i forget how much of ethereum’s story is actually told through the projects that built on it.
the chain by itself is just a base layer, what gave it weight were the things people dared to build on top, the experiments that became infrastructure, the names that outlived entire cycles.
uniswap changed the way we think about markets, just a pool of liquidity and a swap button. it literally defined what defi even means.
makerDAO gave us dai, and with it, the first stablecoin that wasn’t backed by some corporation’s promises. dai was proof that stability could exist without banks, ut became the quiet backbone of countless protocols that followed.
aave took lending and borrowing and stripped away the institution, suddenly credit wasn’t about trust in a person, it was about trust in code.
then came lido; staking was supposed to be technical, hardware-heavy, inaccessible to most.
lido turned it into a collective effort, liquid staking that anyone could access, and in the process it ended up shaping half of ethereum’s validator set.
ens sounds small until you use it, a string of numbers became a name, and with it, identity on-chain stopped feeling alien.
and then the layer 2s. arbitrum. optimism. base. they didn’t compete with ethereum, they actually carried it.
millions of transactions that would have drowned the base chain found room to breathe on these highways, still anchored back to ethereum security.
these projects weren’t cosmetic, they were survival, because without them, ethereum would have stayed a fragile experiment.
high fees would have priced people out, complexity would have scared people away, and eventually the story would’ve been told on another chain.
but the projects stayed, they adapted, they carried ethereum forward when it could have collapsed under its own weight.
and that’s why i don’t just see ethereum as a coin anymore, i see the projects that kept showing up, cycle after cycle, building through the noise until the noise became irrelevant.
ethereum didn’t grow up on its own. the projects did the heavy lifting.
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