AshAEgan

Crypto in 2025: post-AOL, pre-Uber.

2025 is shaping up to be the year of Archetype-backed M&A.

0x acquires Flood—its first ever acquisition.
Stripe picks up red-hot Privy—a clear signal it's crypto committed.
Three more in motion.

Onchain norms often evolve violently.

Buying, selling, holding and earning standards are shifting faster than ever, right before our eyes.

Yesterday we DCA’d, mined, staked — set and forget.

Today we ape, pedestal Saylor, and spin tokens like slot machines, velocity city.

Tomorrow we stfu and allocate everything to our agentic overlords.

Fast approaching era where onchain portfolio offers autonomous Warren ₿uffet, Jim $imons, Nancy Pelo$I

Crypto’s early ethos:
Decentralization and censorship resistance at all costs — even if it meant chaotic coordination.

Today, two distinct camps are driving crypto across the chasm

1) Programmable, permissionless crypto
Open by design. Coordinated by core teams. Fork it if you think you can do better.
(Ethereum, Uniswap)

2) Distribution-first, non-composable crypto
Built on incumbent rails. Easy to adopt, hard to fork. Skeuomorphic Walled gardens.
(Robinhood, Stripe)

Endgame I see: Permissionless innovation wins long-term—but distribution brings the next billion in.