🌲 Investing in Canopy Notes No.026 One idea has been changing the way I think about blockchain ecosystems. What if launching a chain wasn't the finish line? What if it was simply the beginning? Traditionally, blockchains feel binary. Either a network launches... or it doesn't. Success often depends on raising enough capital, attracting enough attention, and convincing enough people before the product has even had time to prove itself. That has always felt backwards to me. The best products rarely begin fully formed. They begin as small experiments. They attract a handful of believers. They improve through feedback. Only then do they become something much larger. That's how startups grow. That's how open-source software evolves. Why shouldn't blockchain infrastructure follow the same path? Recently, I came across Canopy Network's idea of letting chains start small and gradually become fully sovereign once they reach a defined CNPY threshold. What caught my attention wasn't the mechanism itself. It was the philosophy behind it. Instead of asking builders to prove everything on day one, the network allows them to earn independence over time. Growth becomes something that's demonstrated, not assumed. Perhaps sovereignty shouldn't be granted simply because a chain exists. Perhaps it should be earned because a community has decided it's worth supporting. That feels surprisingly close to how the internet evolved. Communities came first. Infrastructure followed. Maybe blockchain is beginning to rediscover that order. @CNPYNetwork #CNPYNetwork# #Canopy#