I was reading more about @BabylonLabs_io and one thought kept interrupting the bullish version of the story in my head.

A lot of what looks strong today may only look strong while the incentives still make the choice easy.

That doesn’t mean the participation isn’t real.
It means real participation and durable alignment are not the same thing.

That’s the part I find more interesting than the security pitch itself.

Babylon can bring Bitcoin-backed security into more places. Fine. But that still leaves a harder question sitting underneath it:

what happens later, when the people securing, using, or building around that system no longer get rewarded in the same way?

Crypto doesn’t usually break at the level of narrative.
It breaks when the economics start pulling people in different directions.

You can see the pattern across the market. During expansion, alignment looks deeper than it really is. Then yields compress, better opportunities appear elsewhere, and what looked like commitment starts looking more like conditional participation.

That’s why I don’t think Babylon’s hardest test is whether the design works.

It’s whether the behaviour around it still holds up once the market stops making the same decision for everyone.

That is where I think the real challenge begins. #baby
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