When the public starts to understand that ETH is a store of value with yield and scarcity that increases as demand for blockspace increases, watch out 🚀
Public market demand for tech startups has been weak for many years now bc venture capital funds raised way too much money, which artificially pumped up private company valuations. The public markets caught on to this and just stopped believing the narratives coming out of Silicon Valley.
The same exact thing is now playing out in crypto just many years behind. Too much crypto VC has been raised by about 30x in the past 5 years. Most of this capital is chasing stupid token narratives for retail liquidity. It’s worked well for some, but the game is ending. Public markets are getting smarter and will inevitably gravitate to credibly neutral stores of value. The main beneficiaries will be BTC, ETH and high value crypto art.
A biased settlement layer is a centralized database that settles transactions, code and communication. Bank of America, JP Morgan, Amazon, Facebook, X, Apple, etc. These databases can stop working and be censored.
A credibly neutral settlement layer is a distributed database (aka blockchain) that settles transactions, code and communication. There’s only one and it runs 24/7 without censorship: Ethereum.
The most important tech innovation of our lifetime is a database that anyone in the world can use to build apps, issue assets and transact without fear of rug pulls or downtime. This is what it means to be an honest settlement layer.
A blockchain does not become an honest settlement layer from narrative. Aligning with one jurisdiction, running media campaigns and lobbying with governments does not help. These are red flags.
To find the most honest settlement layer, just look where developers are building and where stablecoins, NFTs and RWAs are being issued. It doesn't matter where you live or what you believe, Ethereum just works for you.
If AI were to try to wreck humans, one simple thing it’d 100% try to do is launch a useless coin where it allocated a huge supply of the coin to itself, then spent the next decade trying to disguise the facts and shill every narrative it possibly could to the world so it could dump on humans and enrich itself.
Did you know that you can get a loan on your BTC like you can get a mortgage on your house?
Borrowing against your crypto loans has been possible onchain for 8+ years with products like MakerDAO and Aave but the non-custodial UX has been a blocker for many. Centralized services like BlockFi have also offered it, though they weren't transparent, took too much risk and blew up.
Now Coinbase offers onchain loans via Morpho in a hosted wallet. Users get a good UX and the transparency and liquidity of an onchain product. Gamechanger.
Narrative violations from the 1confirmation Summit:
Haters convert to supporters. Don’t block them out, don’t react. Learn and adapt.
“New phone who dis” was thoughtful and took rare founder courage.
Polymarket has done $6B+ in volume since Election Day.
Beeple has only minted NFTs on Ethereum and has not done a public mint since 2021 despite other chains offering big cash.
Base has burned $20M+ in ETH fees on mainnet in the past 8 months.
Coinbase core is not just offchain - onchain collateralized loans are now offered in main app via Morpho and usage is surging.
The app chain thesis pioneered by Cosmos is alive and well.
The Ethereum Foundation is listening and now strongly supporting use cases like DeFi and NFTs that make Ethereum what it is today.
NFTs will be back bigger than ever, led by founders with the most conviction (see music NFTs and Meebits).
The company coin phenomenon was caused by $70B+ in crypto VC raised since 2020 and institutions wanting quick liquidity. This is not well understood by the market yet, but when it is money will flow to credibly neutral stores of value.
Many say USA is a no go for Ethereum’s Devcon because it’s hard to get a travel visa. Understood but Devcon has been running for 9 years, never in US. There’s tradeoffs to every country but given the huge Ethereum contributions to date by Americans and American companies, a big event in the country soon is much needed and would be a huge net positive imo.
No reason why we can’t manifest Devcon 2026 in Austin, TX with 1 on 1 convo btw Vitalik and Trump as the keynote.
Many say USA is a no go for Ethereum’s Devcon conference because it’s hard to get a travel visa. Understood but Devcon has been running for 9 years, never in US. There’s tradeoffs to every country but given US’s Ethereum contributions and involvement to date, a big event in the country soon would be a huge net positive imo.
No reason why we can’t manifest Devcon 2026 in Austin, TX with 1 on 1 convo btw Vitalik and Trump as the keynote.
Those who say Bitcoin is the only store of value are the same people who didn’t believe in Bitcoin until it had institutional legitimacy and the digital gold narrative was popular.
Mute NPCs who lack vision and follow popular sentiment bc it appears to lead to the most attention and money. They are shortsighted.
Those who say Bitcoin is a special snowflake are the same people who didn’t believe in Bitcoin until it had institutional legitimacy and the digital gold narrative was popular.
Mute NPCs who lack vision and follow popular sentiment bc it appears to lead to the most attention and money. They are shortsighted.