Why did Chinese labs smoke Western crypto projects in the AI race?

Simple: they picked the right 100 tricks out of 10,000 possible ones.

While Western teams were busy debating governance tokens and decentralization theater, Chinese labs were laser-focused on what actually moves the needle.

No fluff. No committees. Just ruthless execution on the techniques that matter.

That's how they built world-class models faster. They optimized for results, not narratives.

Lesson for crypto AI projects: stop larping as researchers. Ship or get left behind.