"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

This is the golden age of blockchain, and also an era rife with scams;

it is an age of open-source innovation, as well as a time of constant rug pulls;

it is the spring of decentralized faith, and the winter of regulatory storms;

we have global consensus, yet face the fragmentation of chains;

we rush towards the utopia of financial freedom, while also racing towards the abyss of bubble collapse.