A decade ago, the Ethereum Whitepaper mentioned every usecase that has been successful - everything from stablecoins to prediction markets to name services - and some that haven't

Around that time, BitShares was already live with PoS, free and fast txs, DEXs, NFTs, memecoins, algorithmic stablecoins, user-issued tokens etc. 

7 years ago, the ICO mania experimented with every possible "____ but blockchain" 

4 years ago, we saw our last major wave of application innovation that proved everything discussed a decade ago 

Crypto is a successful, mature industry, anyone who says "crypto is nothing but gambling" is delusional, as are those who say "we're soooo earlyyyy". Acknowledge reality, keep building on things that work, that may work, and abandon everything that has failed for many years (>99.99% crypto projects)

Truth is in the eye of the beholder…It depends on what a person is doing in crypto. If he follows social media influencers so he buys tokens in order to sell them for a higher price, and it is more likely to be gambling. But if he builds, for example, a fast payment system or an accessible database, he is probably part of an established industry. Sincerely