Recently关注了 @WalletConnect and its token $WCT to be honest, I wasn't optimistic about this project from the beginning. Because it is too 'backend', unlike those flashy on-chain games or NFT projects, it doesn't even have a UI. But as I looked deeper, I found that this might actually be the protocol worth paying attention to in the long term.

In these years of Web3, everyone has been talking about 'decentralized identity', but in the end, **who is responsible for the 'connection'?** It's not the wallet, it's not the DApp, but rather underlying protocols like WalletConnect that have almost no presence. Just like in the early days of the internet, no one paid attention to TCP/IP, but without it, we couldn't even open web pages. WalletConnect is the same; it makes connecting wallets a 'common practice', but behind this, there is a whole set of communication standards running.

Then there's $WCT. It's not the kind of coin that is going to take off immediately upon launch, and I haven't seen any 'hype script' for it. But one interesting point is that it attempts to assign value to the 'act of connecting' itself. In other words, you are not just signing with your wallet, but you are participating in the 'governance' of this connection ecosystem. In the future, you might be able to use $WCT to decide the standards for which wallets get priority access, or who can use certain protocol features.

For me, this is a shift of underlying power. You are not a consumer of Web3, but the connector itself. If Bitcoin grants you the 'right to control assets', then #Walletconnecet + $WCT tells you: 'You can also define the rules of connection.'

This line of thinking is much more digestible than those projects that frequently airdrop, form groups, or wash images.