My fat participant thesis: I believe money will flow towards protocols with distribution.
Every cycle leaves a trail of burnt capital and a clearer understanding of where true value flows next.
The speculative reflex that defined the last few metas:
- $SOL ecosystem rotations
- meme liquidity loops
- perp DEX mania
- farm-and-dump incentives
They are all exhausted.
The next meta will be a rotation from high-beta speculation to high-trust utility.
TLDR where attention is liquidity and right now:
• There’s little bid for old narratives (L1 wars, DeFi 1.0, liquidity mining).
• There’s no trust in new games like $PUMP, Solana microcaps, layer rotations.
• There’s no clarity on utility chains (Base, Blast, Sui) because the users aren’t sticky.
The winners will be:
• Apps with embedded financial utility (neobank, stable yield, payment rails). @useTria @UR_global @ether_fi @pieverse_io - $ETHFI
• Assets with CEX distribution (discoverability and retail inflow). @SolvProtocol @edgeX_exchange @Mantle_Official @SoSoValueCrypto @WeRoam - $SOLV $MNT $SOSO
• Protocols that turn attention into yield (socialFi, AI operators, privacy rails). @brevis_zk
Retail is thin, but fatter participants like funds, treasuries, whales, trading desks are re-entering:
• AI x Crypto convergence will shift towards yield; inference markets, compute staking, agentic trading networks.
@almanak @gizatechxyz @AlloraNetwork @TitanSmartTrade - $GIZA
• Real-world yield and tokenized cashflow assets will bridge off-chain credit with on-chain verification; expect “T-bill-as-a-protocol” to quietly become the biggest winner of this phase.
@OndoFinance @plumenetwork @OpenEden_X - $ONDO, $PLUME, $EDEN
• Data, compute, liquidity, and labor will all become tokenized markets with native monetization layers.
@codecopenflow @brevis_zk @grass @OrochiNetwork - $CODEC, $GRASS, $ON
• Fat participants are already seeding infra that creates continuous transaction flow.

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