ViamBonam

The AI crypto sector hit $28B in market cap by early 2026. Most of it is rebranded speculation. Bittensor is the one that holds up on close inspection. Decentralized AI subnets, $200M from Polychain, founded by people with actual ML backgrounds.

The old airdrop model is gone. Sign up and get tokens does not exist anymore. rojects now track on-chain behavior: swaps, bridging, staking, governance. Low-effort farming gets filtered out almost immediately

Hot take: Most crypto apps have a marketing problem disguised as a UX problem. The interface isn't confusing because it's hard to build. It's confusing because nobody talked to a real user before shipping.

Most "Web3 social" projects launch, spike, and die because they try to replace X instead of doing something X genuinely cannot do The projects worth watching are the ones building social primitives where on-chain identity and ownership actually change what is possible!

guys, the wallet is the first impression of web3. but now it's like showing up to a job interview and being asked to memorize 12 random words before you're allowed in the building.

Something i keep thinking about: The internet's first decade was also mostly garbage products on real infrastructure email, forums, bad e-commerce But, the infrastructure (TCP/IP, HTTP) was the bet, not the apps, feels familiar in the ecosystem.