Over the last two years, I witnessed the abundance of rocketship NFT project launches, new web3 platforms, and a rise of protocols - all alongside a number of scams, failures, and incessant shilling on twitter and discord. How was there so much noise in this space? I was long a proponent of blockchain, having first dabbled with cryptocurrency in 2018 - by no means the earliest of adopters - and for the longest time, a curious bystander rather than a believer. But recently, I went over the edg...