DeFi protocols promised a revolution, huh? Now ETH's chilling around $1.6k, but where’s all the excitement? I mean, I see the TVL dropping, and Uniswap's still doing its thing, but it feels like the hype wave crashed. Remember when everyone was screaming about the death of banks? Now it's all about NFTs or whatever. Are we just hopping from trend to trend? Also, CZ's tweet about Binance liquidity got me thinking—how much of this space is smoke and mirrors? But then again, Aave's got those new updates, and some analysts are bullish on that. Maybe I should look deeper or just wait this out. What's that saying? Don't trust, verify? Yeah, maybe that’s where I’m at.