DeFi protocols promised a revolution, but here we are watching $ETH struggle around $1.5k and wondering if we missed the boat or if the boat even exists. Remember when everyone was hyping $UNI and now it's like crickets? Saw someone tweet that "DeFi summer" feels like a fever dream. Balancer hack last week got me paranoid, how much risk am I really taking here? Every analyst keeps dropping "long-term potential" but short term feels like a rollercoaster with no seatbelt. Am I just funding more rugs or is this the price of innovation? Can't tell if I'm early or just naive. Maybe both?