Research / thoughts

FIELD NOTES

Everything here was written after the interaction, not before it.

Infrastructure

Why boring infrastructure may outperform the next hype narrative.

Narratives rotate every quarter. Sequencers, data availability and RPC reliability keep compounding quietly underneath all of them.

Method

Why I prefer interacting with early protocols over simply farming narratives.

Farming teaches you a points table. Interacting teaches you where a protocol breaks, who maintains it and whether the team ships.

Testnets

What testnets actually teach you about a project.

Downtime, docs quality, response speed in the dev channel. A testnet is a preview of how the team behaves under real pressure.

Opinion

Crypto adoption won't come from better speculation. It will come from better products.

Users don't want a wallet. They want an outcome. The winning apps will hide the chain the way the internet hid TCP/IP.