There's a lot of "im pivoting to ai" folks with crypto dna now.

Maybe some were opportunists, however you define that, but many "i'm bullish crypto but too early; too much grift" types too.

We may see some real clean crypto use cases in the coming years from alumni. One space I'm watching is open source funding.

farcaster engineering liquidity • prev manifold.xyz, twilio.com

Crypto normalizing grifting to such an extent is definitely driving people out. It’s hard to build genuinely for a space while watching others ruining its reputation with endless CAs and rugs.