I have been around since 2018. I believe in decentralization. I believe in permissionless finance. I am one of the few builders in this space for reasons that don't entirely involve money. I am tired. I am tired of the extraction. I am tired of not wanting to use anything being built because I do not want to be exit liquidity. It is why I build. If you have been around as long as I have, you would remember what was promised when this all started. It was fewer intermediaries. It was self-custody. It was a way to opt out of a very broken system. I'll be brutally honest here: We are trading one broken system for another if we don't smarten up. There is still a battle being waged, and it is up to us to make sure it goes the right way. This all started for a reason. Did we all forget 2008? If we don't want to repeat history, we need to be different. Others may not be capable of walking this path. But I am. I am here for the battle, and I will not ever give up. Everything I'm building is designed to be walked away from if needed. It is designed to not be stopped. It has admin knobs, sure, but it does NOT need them. What does this mean? It means that if it came down to compromising the protocol or throwing away the keys (including any future protocol revenue) to make sure users could continue to use the system, then I'm always choosing to throw away the keys. But this does not have to happen. I am also building permissioned infrastructure that can live beside the permissionless version. I am not stupid. I realize there is a line to be walked, especially when it comes to RWAs. But it's OUR job to make sure we aren't taking shortcuts and that we are still building systems that are safe and secure without taking away the very things we fought so hard for. There is still a whole world of users who have no access to proper banking, no access to investments, and no access to yield. But they have access to the internet... So I am going to continue building every day. I'm never going to stop fighting. Everyone wants to make money. But remember what happens when things blow up like they did in 2008. It is the user left holding the bag, always. It is the user paying to clean up the mess. It is the user always providing the bailout. Let's not do this again.