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warning: long read, personal POV i worked for years with brands, celebs, banks, investors, and foundations. i know how powerful brand marketing is in building trust and community. and as someone whose family, friends, and daily life don’t touch crypto (despite my best effort), i’m painfully aware of how bad crypto’s brand is. if you’re thinking “only XYZ is cringe,” hate to break it to you: to most people, there’s no difference between ethereum, solana or base. to them, it’s all just crypto. no amount of “man on the street” tiktoks, memecoins, or cypherpunk storytelling is going to fix that. i’ve been in crypto since 2018, and the most consistent thing i’ve seen convert skeptics into believers is simple: trusted humans. people change their minds when someone they trust shows them something they care about. maybe i’m wrong, but i still think the best way forward is what’s worked for every other network: good humans onboarding other good humans. it’s slow until it’s not.
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I'm curious what your thoughts are on institutions and crypto. In general as a software engineer, there's absolutely a social stigma against working in crypto versus a FAANG. I'd double down on your "good people" and say institutions have capital and resiliency to attract good people to them, and not even consider even our best protocols. They just attract the marginal good person better than we do. How the heck do we compete against years of built institutional credibility when we can't even get protocols to trust protocols?
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