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)

This isn’t how tech works though. Most successful products have a graveyard of attempts that were too early. The ico failures surely have some ideas that may work now that we got rollups for example