the final boss meta of this cycle will emerge to become fully on-chain fair launched businesses and the roots of this meta will never go away intra-cycle, only deepen and grow over time shitcoins have served to antagonistically level out high fdv vaporware grift and now that the landscape have been leveled we are still finding our footing with what "good" tokens will come in to fill the void, and how those tokens will be deployed into the market ai was simply a representation of on-chain being interested in real builders and quality again but the ai frameworks and marginal "flywheel" ai tokens only took us so far down this path... in terms of actual revenue being generated and being reinvested back into the token, smart money always recognized that these were really just shitcoins with a few extra steps (and sometimes a bit of revenue) assuming market appetite will continue to skew towards quality on a long-term basis (inherently will as people lose money on accelerated grift in the short term) it's only right that the market will also eventually skew towards fully on-chain co-ops. complete on-chain businesses that work, make money, and re-invest all of that money back into the token / distributions to holders / liquidity i don't think the broader macro undertones that drove the shift to ai will simply retreat back into the hillside forever no, there is a renaissance afoot here who's flame has been lit... and the market is finding it's footing amidst a new way to fund the ideas that matter how long that will it take for market appetite to actually arrive to this point? i don't know... and i definitely won't be forcing trades in the interim but it will happen (inspired qrt to a @0xkyle__ post below)