The crypto blockchain space has become increasingly distorted. Early OGs and founding OGs are moving further away from their original ideals, yet the market is firmly controlled by secondary OGs. Of course, I'm saying this because I didn't make money following the path that diverged from those ideals.

Every market is fundamentally about making money. Since crypto can't service the real economy, it keeps getting worse with shitcoins and empty concepts. With no interest in technical trading on secondaries, it goes crazy with memes. With no one opening contracts, it moves to predictions. Regardless of the market or who builds the platform, the goal is always the same: provide users with more ways to empty their wallets and achieve that simple, honest objective of your money going into my pocket.

I'm still holding quite a few legitimate projects, bought 2-3 years ago. Over a million USDT has turned into floating losses of 70-80k. These were what people called "the future" back then. Funny thing—nobody was talking about AI as the future back then.

So after looking at everything, I ended up trading futures contracts. Only futures won't become outdated and get replaced. But the risks keep increasing, so my opening frequency is very low now.

I can only remember what a high-net-worth friend told me years ago: the crypto space will get harder, more transparent, more compliant, with new players squeezing out old ones, difficult implementation, and no capital injections. Thinking about it now, that was quite an enlightening discussion.