A thought has been bothering me lately.
The hardest part of building a crypto system might not be attracting participation. It might be surviving what participation does to the system afterward.
I found myself thinking about that while looking at Bedrock.
When a network is small, incentives often look clean and predictable. People follow the intended path. Value flows where designers expect it to flow. But scale changes the psychology. More participants mean more optimization, more experimentation, and sometimes entirely new behaviors that nobody planned for.
That's where infrastructure quietly becomes a behavioral problem.
The same tension shows up in conversations around Midnight Network. Not because the technologies are identical, but because both raise a similar question: what happens when thousands of independent actors start interpreting the same incentives differently?
Maybe I'm overstating it. We're still early, and real stress tests usually arrive later.
But builders design systems. Users adapt to them. Capital searches for efficiency. Those three forces don't always move together.
Which makes me wonder whether trust is really built through narratives at all or whether value ultimately travels through invisible coordination layers that most people never notice until they fail.