If the best you can come up with is gaslight consumers by acting as a shitcoin trading fee middleman, then either you're not good enough at product or the whole category premise is flawed and should be abandoned until the TAM is bigger and can support real use cases.

I suspect it's both btw. Product in consumer crypto operates at infantile levels. It's a failure of imagination, however anything interesting can't find enough users to spin its flywheel. It'll take someone special right now, average product people should wait 3-5 years.