Having helped build Symmetric for over two years now, I’ve seen it go from a fresh Balancer fork on Telos to a fully-featured DEX and index protocol with custom pools, vote-escrow governance, and a small but supportive community. We shipped a lot and tried to make it easy for people to launch and manage liquidity. But over time, a few things became clear. The token model didn’t really reward participation. Protocol fees weren’t being used effectively. Governance slowed down. The system worked...