Narrative Pivot That Made Web3 Giants

ETH→ Settlement Layer

UNI → Liquidity Backbone

NEAR → Chain Abstraction

TIA → DA Layer

FIL Programmable Data Layer

LDO → Liquid Staking Standard

SKY→ RWA Powerhouse

JUP → Aggregator Hub

ENA → Synthetic Dollar Engine

LINK → Universal CCIP

PYTH → Pull-Based Data

GRT → Indexing Marketplace

EIGEN→ Shared Trust Infra

RENDER → AI Compute

The pattern is always the same.

> Launch with one story.

> Survive the cycle.

> Come back as infrastructure.