It is important to zoom out and take a 30,000 foot view of crypto at times like this... And to remember that ultimately, what will lead to crypto's success is not Saylor (or lack of Saylor), or $MSTR or $STRC, or even $BTC itself, or any one regulatory regime in any one country, or any specific macro liquidity profile in any one year... But rather 1) blockchain's inherent superiority as financial rails, and 2) the generational shift globally as the gerontocracy which currently benefits from those anachronistic rails is forced to cede power as they pass on... As Mishima wrote: "...all artistic creations are born of a resistance to one's era..." And such it is with crypto. After decades upon decades of this calcified, ossified legacy financial system laboriously slogging onward- and after the increasingly cynical sacrifice of future economic prospects within that system to benefit those currently in charge of it- a new generation of technological pioneers (or 'artists', to channel the above quote) ushered in the arrival of a wholly new, vastly superior, blockchain-based financial system. It is truly beautiful when you think about it. And we are currently smack dab in the middle of that evolution. @maplefinance co-founder @syrupsid gave an absolute masterclass on this subject in a recent interview with @Genfinity... In relation to Maple's own trajectory within the broader evolution noted above, he states: "Our ultimate competitor over the next 10 years is the Ares', the KKR's, the Blackstone's of the world... And we think we have an advantage over them that will expand over time because they don't understand how to use stablecoins... they're not going to be lending stablecoins... they don't know how to accept tokenized collateral... More assets are gonna be tokenized... there's going to be more stablecoins in the world... and ultimately that's kind of the oxygen for us..." Its a really incredible interview- even if you aren't interested in Maple specifically- as it outlines as thoroughly and cogently as I have seen a description of where we are currently at in that overall evolution to blockchain-based rails... Am going to include several more clips below and highly recommend watching all of them as a well as the full interview! And then disclaimer as always I own tons of $SYRUP and am insanely bullish on it and work with the team (hence the Nikita tag on this) so I am admittedly very bias :) Indeed there is no team in crypto I trust more to execute and take advantage of the above shift than the Maple team - and when I watch clips like those below it just makes the long-term success of crypto seem even that much more inevitable...