# Survive in the dark forest - 0

By [Crypto Citrus](https://paragraph.com/@crypto-citrus) · 2022-05-16

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From Dan Robinson’s article, ethereum is a Dark Forest. It represents sophisticated crypto players capturing the infinite value from other innocent players in the blockchain.

[https://www.paradigm.xyz/2020/08/ethereum-is-a-dark-forest](https://www.paradigm.xyz/2020/08/ethereum-is-a-dark-forest)

In broader term, crypto is a Dark Forest. There are so many different chains in the blockchain ecosystem that provides these kind of value extraction scheme.

The extracted value can be in the range of $10 - $1M USDC. It’s new theme for anyone with sufficient blockchain knowledge to participate, earn and have fun.

In this series, I’m going to document the journey and interesting notes about this space.

WAGMI

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*Originally published on [Crypto Citrus](https://paragraph.com/@crypto-citrus/survive-in-the-dark-forest-0)*