The other night, I was up late messing around in my wallet.

Wasn’t trading. Wasn’t staking.

Just poking around, checking some old tokens, flipping through NFTs I’d forgotten I had, looking at past transactions like a timeline of memories.

You ever do that?

Treat your wallet like a diary?

It’s wild what shows up.

There was a mint I jumped into on a whim that actually went somewhere.

A token I sent to a mate that started as a joke but turned into a group chat.

Dust from projects long dead, and others quietly still alive.

It hit me:

Crypto is weirdly emotional.

Not because of the money, although yeah, I’ve felt those swings.

But because these chains, these assets, these wallets…

They hold moments.

Moments where I was curious.

Hopeful.

Down bad.

Inspired.

Fully onboarded into something I didn’t fully understand, but was all in on anyway.

We talk a lot about tech. About decentralisation. About changing the world.

But it’s easy to forget the human part.

The fact that behind every wallet is a person trying to make sense of a new way to exist online.

And that’s why I still love this space.

Yeah, there are rugs. Yeah, there’s noise. But there’s also connection.

A tweet turns into a DM.

A DM turns into a call.

A call turns into building something together.

That doesn’t happen in most industries.

But it happens here. Every day.

I know it’s easy to feel like the hype is gone sometimes.

The charts are quieter. The headlines are fewer.

Even the memes feel slower some days.

But if you zoom in, there’s still movement. Still energy.

Still people showing up and putting something on chain, not because they have to, but because they can.

That’s what Web3 gave us.

That permissionless feeling.

To launch.

To experiment.

To build weird little things that matter to us, even if no one else gets it yet.

So yeah. I didn’t mint anything that night.

Didn’t buy, didn’t sell.

But I left that little session more bullish than ever.

Because crypto isn’t just financial infrastructure.

It’s creative infrastructure.

It’s emotional infrastructure.

It’s a place you can show up, wallet in hand, and say:

“Here’s something I made.”

Or “Here’s something I believe in.”

And that, even in a bear market is worth sticking around for.

Catch you on the next one.

– JC