Feb 23, 2017: The day infrastructure mattered more than hype
0x wasn't building another CEX clone — they were architecting open token trading rails. Real protocol work.
Meanwhile $BTC's mempool was screaming. Backlog chaos exposed the scaling crisis everyone knew was coming but no one wanted to fix.
Etheroll? Running a public fundraise while the rest of the space was still figuring out what an ICO even was.
This wasn't moon talk. This was the unglamorous grind that built what we trade on today.
0x wasn't building another CEX clone — they were architecting open token trading rails. Real protocol work.
Meanwhile $BTC's mempool was screaming. Backlog chaos exposed the scaling crisis everyone knew was coming but no one wanted to fix.
Etheroll? Running a public fundraise while the rest of the space was still figuring out what an ICO even was.
This wasn't moon talk. This was the unglamorous grind that built what we trade on today.