Coop

Feel like crypto has hit a bit of a stalemate right now. 

Everyone understands the name of the game is bringing new people onchain but yet 99% of all volume is still driven by the same cohort of ~25,000 crypto-native users.

I'm not seeing real interest or demand from people to "get into crypto" and the most successful apps (like Polymarket) don't really have any downstream effects which makes those users want to check out other crypto apps or go deeper down the rabbit hole.

More and more my friends simply net out at "buy more Bitcoin" and frankly I don't think that's a bad take given how safe a bet it is relative to the slaughterhouse that's the memecoin trenches these days.

Am I alone in this thought or do other people feel this too?

agree fully. we need to keep talking to users who aren’t into crypto at all. if we stay focused on these 25k crypto native folks, we’ll stay stuck in the same bubble.

the way forward to me is building meaningful product experiences that don’t feel like crypto and with way less jargon.

i’m v optimistic tho. feels like the right time for this to happen

Product without the retail having liquidity is baseless