Recently, I’ve seen a bunch of PFPs changing profile pictures, opening memberships, and doing “brand storytelling.” To put it plainly, it’s about pulling attention together first. Long-term value may of course exist, but I’m increasingly starting to think it has to stand up to boredom: no airdrops, no new stories—when no one in the group talks for three days, would you still be willing to keep that profile picture?

After those cross-chain bridge thefts, I’ve become more sensitive to the word “trust.” And that kind of consensus that gets triggered by oracle errors—where everyone has to “wait for confirmation”—really resembles how, all of a sudden, everyone remembers that the chain can go crazy too. It’s just that we usually pretend it won’t. If PFPs/memberships end up being nothing more than emotional assets, then when something like this happens, they’ll all shake together.

Honestly, I’m a little envious of project teams that can gather people with just one image—their efficiency is just too high. I do matchmaking and watch execution boundaries; I’m used to breaking things down into delays and costs. In any case, it’s not that romantic… but because of that, I’m more willing to trade time for certainty: I’d rather slow down—at least don’t rely on hype to keep things alive. That’s it for now.