value created in crypto has been impermanent (at best)

which builders are committed to holding their tokens for longer? which founders are buying and staking?

locked liquidity is great, but insiders locked is table stakes. tokens (so far) have only found utility for dumping on ur heads

100%. Lockups are the only alignment for long term project health.

Time to use commit.wtf, lock but Not just for locking reasons but Committing to real goals 🙂

do you think this is part of why aerodrome seems to be working? or maybe i just think it's working?

What's the point of a token? Why bother having a token if the builders have to lock theirs up like some kind of 401k they can't access? Who does it help? "Investors" aren't actually investing, they're just becoming exit liquidity for traders. 

Why not build systems where investors can actually support the builders and ppl that want to speculate can use their own markets/liquidity to do so? Why keep building so that the most committed are guaranteed to be the most rugged? 

Arbitrary lockups just kick the can down the road, creating a false sense of security for more "investors" to become exit liquidity.