#CryptoRoundTableRemarks what I heard you won't find in Bloomberg or CoinTelegraph.

💼 Heavyweights: exchange bosses, investment funds, regulators disguised as “consultants,” and a couple of OGs with more Bitcoin than Satoshi.

All with the same poker face… but the backstage conversations were something else.

🔥 One dropped something that made me seriously think:

> “The next cycle will not be decided by adoption, but by obedience.”

Obedience to whom? To the new “crypto elite”: centralized banks that now pretend to be decentralized.

🔍 Pay attention to this:

👉 There is an internal (not public) draft of a protocol that seeks to standardize smart contracts so they can be intervened in real-time by allied governments. The worst part? Two top chains are already involved in the project. One starts with “S,” the other with “A”… and neither is small.

🧠 What does that mean? That if tomorrow you make a “suspicious” swap or participate in a pool with someone marked, your wallet could be frozen by network consensus. It's that crazy.

And meanwhile, 90% of people are on Twitter discussing whether SHIB will go up.

👁 Watch out for this other gem that was heard quietly, between drinks and contracts:

> “2025 is the year when the ecosystem splits in two: those who follow rules, and those who hide.”

And no, it's not conspiracy theory. It's geopolitical strategy.

💣 If you're in DeFi, if you use mixers, if you do farming on “unregulated” chains, you'd better have a plan B. Because what’s brewing in those fine carpeted rooms is not inclusion, it’s control with a marketing smile.

The irony is that many of those who are building this new order were the same ones who in 2017 shouted “Not your keys, not your coins.” Now they sit at round tables, with expensive wine, and draft protocols that will leave you out if you don't align.