Crypto gave a lot of us our first real shot.

Before the grants, the panels, the podcast invites... there was a janky Notion page, a chaotic Telegram group,
and someone who said, "Yeah, let’s give them a chance."

You got your start writing DAO proposals at 2am.

Shipping dusty GitHub commits no one paid for.

Making threads that got 14 likes, 12 of them from friends.

You built reputation not with titles, but with receipts.

And now?
Maybe you’ve got capital. 
A name.
Maybe people answer your DMs.

But don’t forget:

- the Discords that taught you
- the communities that backed you
- the people who vouched for you when all you had was intent.

In a space that reinvents itself every cycle, respect is one of the few things that compounds.

Honor the past.
Support the next you. 🫡