zooming out against a cosmological timeline because the all is one & there is nothing else 

$degen was the big bang—overnight distribution, reflexive price, cultural gravity

it proved tokens can bootstrap networks *before* they exist; it proved that tokens themselves *are* integral to network growth 

four nebulae are cooling into form here:

- launcher (capital rails + token infra)
- engagement (raw culture + mimetic surface)
- creator (sticky talent + narrative payloads)
- apps (retention + recurring txs) (likely to breakdown into tooling/utility, trading & gaming)

outside of maybe $clanker there’s no dominant token in any layer yet; liquidity & mindshare slosh between them, which is necessary in ecosystem nascency

currently, we’re pre-silo—early enough to shape how gravity sets; good for discovery, bad for depth which is why everything feels like an echo

how a layer stratifies into a silo (galaxy):

1. crowning → it becomes the default exchange medium in the layer 
2. hardening → infra + UX wrap around it
3. propagation → sub-projects denominate in it, spinning up micro-economies in the process (downstream, a new sun for a new solar system)

we’re at step 0… order books still thin; attention fragmented…