Fat Protocols Are Out, Fat Apps Are In
This week, crypto narratives shifted hard.
🔸 The macro scene is cooling off. No July rate cut. Fiscal policy is taking the lead.
🔸 Europe’s calling for retail savings to fuel capital markets — a move that could shift global asset dominance.
In crypto?
→Bitcoin’s consolidating near ATH. Institutions are stacking, but CT natives still wait for altseason.
A wave of U.S. altcoin spot ETFs may be coming in H2 2025. Could this flip the switch?
→Robinhood dropped a Layer 2 chain — showing just how easy launching blockchains has become. But the real value? Apps with revenue.
→Fat Protocol thesis from 2016 is being challenged. It's no longer about just infra tokens — it’s about apps with real cash flows and tokens that share in that upside.
→Meanwhile, Solana + Robinhood introduced tokenized stocks — a small step now, but one day stocks could be on-chain, composable, and 24/7 tradable.
👉🏻Key takeaway:
This cycle rewards products, not just protocols. Revenue matters. Real yield matters. Utility matters.
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