#CryptoRoundTableRemarks I was eavesdropping on the halls of the Crypto Round Table 2025... and what I heard you won’t find in Bloomberg or CoinTelegraph.

💼 Heavy hitters: heads of exchanges, 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 let something slip that made me think seriously:

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

Obedience to whom? To the new "crypto elite": centralized banks that are now pretending to be decentralized.

🔍 Pay attention to this:

👉 There is an internal (non-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 flagged, your wallet could be frozen by network consensus. Just like that.

And meanwhile, 90% of people are on Twitter discussing whether SHIB is going to rise.

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

> "2025 is the year where the ecosystem splits in two: those who follow the 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’re farming on "unregulated" chains, you better have a plan B. Because what’s cooking in those fine carpeted rooms is not inclusion, it’s control with a marketing smile.

The ironic thing is that many of those who are setting up 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, drafting protocols that will leave you out if you don’t align.