DeFi protocols were supposed to be the big game-changer, right? Like, remember when everyone thought they'd disrupt banks? But here we are, with ETH stuck around $1.6k and Uniswap still facing regulatory heat. Just saw a tweet saying MakerDAO's pivoting to traditional assets—wait, isn't that the opposite of decentralization? Feels like we're in this weird limbo where innovation's slowed but maybe it's just me getting cynical. Saw some analyst mention a shift to real-world assets as the next big thing—didn't we hear that last bull run too? Anyway, scrolling thru Twitter, some are bullish on zk-rollups solving scalability, but who knows. My brain's fried from all the noise. Gonna dive back into Discord and see what the devs are really saying.