The meme casino tourists are confused.

"How is ICP going up when the market is bleeding?"

Because eventually the music stops.

The influencers disappear.
The memes stop trending.
The liquidity extraction schemes run out of victims.

And then people start asking an uncomfortable question:

"What actually works?"

Suddenly TPS marketing doesn't matter.
Celebrity endorsements don't matter.
Animal coins don't matter.

Technology matters.

While 99% of crypto was busy launching the 47th dog coin, ICP was busy building a decentralized cloud, AI infrastructure, on-chain applications, and a new internet stack.

Funny how the market starts caring about fundamentals the moment speculation dries up.

When the casino closes, the innovation takes over.