I do not really remember the exact moment crypto stopped feeling exciting. It was not a single shift, more like a slow fading of novelty as the same ideas returned in new forms, DeFi, NFTs, metaverse, AI tokens, each one carrying a brief wave of certainty before reality settled in again.
Now when I see projects like Pixels, a Web3 farming game with ownership and tokenized systems, I do not feel excitement or dismissal. Just familiarity. The design questions are always the same, how do you make something feel like a game while also making it feel like an economy, and how long can those two intentions stay aligned before they start pulling against each other.
Maybe that is where experience in crypto leads you, not to strong opinions, but to a quieter kind of attention. Watching what lasts, and noticing how rarely anything does in the way it first promises.
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