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An era has quietly come to an end. Wallets, as standalone products, seem to have reached their twilight. Struggling with profitability, they are increasingly being acquired or integrated by centralized exchanges (CEXs) or traditional fintech giants, becoming mere components of larger ecosystems—such as stablecoin payments—rather than the focal point of industry development.The Decline of Standalone WalletsFor entrepreneurs in the space, persistence has become a virtue in itself. The goal? Sur...
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From SynFutures to AI Agents: A New Era for DeFAI The product form of AI Agents is more suited to appear as embedded service middleware, which helps to bring the trading experience back to the simplicity and intuitiveness of Web2. The revival of the AI Agent track will not be driven by "CA engineers" who excel in performance, but by "product engineers" who focus on practical implementation. In the midst of a market sentiment storm caused by the collective failure of on-chain PVP leaders and t...
I. RWA: The Golden Handcuffs of Real-World Compliance
Tokenising real-world assets (RWA) is the industry’s most self-evident narrative: put equity, debt, real estate or infrastructure cash-flows on-chain, embrace regulation, serve the real economy.
Ant Group’s pilot that turned EV-charging revenue into tokens was hailed as proof that blockchain could slash financing costs.
Yet the promise of “real value” is exactly what rivets on the first pair of shackles.
A tokenised deed is not a deed in court; a cross-border security token obeys every jurisdiction it lands in, or none.
Liquidity is thin, valuation models are thorny, and off-chain asset management is fragile.
The only legal path is a hyper-centralised pipeline:
Licenced issuer
1:1 audited custody
Licenced trading venue
Bank-level KYC/AML
The result is the cruel paradox DeFi set out to destroy: a “decentralised” asset that can only breathe through a fully centralised architecture.
Most pilots never graduate from press-release stardom to a line item on an income statement.
II. Security & Compliance: Locked Out by “Trust”
After billions lost to hacks and sanctions fines, security tooling should be a no-brainer sale.
Start-ups have built world-class scanners that spit out exploit lists in minutes, and forensic engines that trace dirty funds in real time.
But banks buy relationships, not code.
Procurement check-lists start with:
“Is the vendor on the regulator’s recommended list? Do the Big Four lend their letter-head? Has it served a state-owned bank before?”
A team that wins every CTF final can still lose every RFP.
The “absolute necessity” becomes the most reliable graveyard: great tech, zero traction, revenue rounded to zero.
III. Industrial Use-Cases: The Upgrade No One Asked For
Carbon trading, cross-border provenance, medical-data sharing—each sounds like a trillion-dollar pain point that only an immutable ledger can solve.
Then the purchasing manager asks the killer question:
“It’s neat, but why should I pay more for a ‘trust’ sticker when MySQL does the job at one-tenth the cost?”
Once subsidies dry up, the pilot lights go out.
Without a cost or trust edge that is impossible to replicate with a traditional database, blockchain becomes the glossy exhibit in a government showroom—impressive, unused, unplugged at night.
IV. Digital Identity & Judicial Evidence: Shackled by the Greater Good
Self-sovereign identity, on-chain court evidence, government transparency—initiatives with unimpeachable social value.
They are also infrastructure public goods: everyone wants them, no one wants to pay.
A two-year pilot to put academic credentials on-chain ended the moment universities replied, “We already have a database.”
Court-record projects survive as one-off IT contracts with single-digit margins and no path to scale.
When your business model is “some ministry might renew the grant,” you don’t have a business; you have a PowerPoint stranded between policy papers.
V. DAOs: Human Nature Wears the Crown
Decentralised governance is Web3’s constitutional dream: code is law, community is king, treasuries are managed by open vote.
Reality reads like a satire.
OpenGov mechanisms designed to bind whale and protocol interests end up funding private-jet liveries and KOLs with 300 followers, while core dev grant proposals are voted down.
The smartest contract cannot compile away culture gaps, rent-seeking clusters or short-sighted apes.
The “correct” governance model is shackled by the oldest bugs in human firmware.
VI. Picking the Lock: Start Where the Shackles Are Smallest
Every one of these directions is logically flawless and commercially lethal because each attaches to a link in the real world—law, cost structures, human incentives—that refuses to be disrupted from first principles.
Break-out will not come from grander narratives but from micro-wedges:
A remittance corridor that actually shaves 1 % off FX cost.
A supply-chain invoice that a bank will discount because the hash is tamper-proof and the court recognises it.
A compliance tool that saves an institution more in fines than it costs in licence fees.
The first team that pops open a single shackle—legal, economic or behavioural—won’t just build a company; it will lighten the load for everyone still dragging the chain.
I. RWA: The Golden Handcuffs of Real-World Compliance
Tokenising real-world assets (RWA) is the industry’s most self-evident narrative: put equity, debt, real estate or infrastructure cash-flows on-chain, embrace regulation, serve the real economy.
Ant Group’s pilot that turned EV-charging revenue into tokens was hailed as proof that blockchain could slash financing costs.
Yet the promise of “real value” is exactly what rivets on the first pair of shackles.
A tokenised deed is not a deed in court; a cross-border security token obeys every jurisdiction it lands in, or none.
Liquidity is thin, valuation models are thorny, and off-chain asset management is fragile.
The only legal path is a hyper-centralised pipeline:
Licenced issuer
1:1 audited custody
Licenced trading venue
Bank-level KYC/AML
The result is the cruel paradox DeFi set out to destroy: a “decentralised” asset that can only breathe through a fully centralised architecture.
Most pilots never graduate from press-release stardom to a line item on an income statement.
II. Security & Compliance: Locked Out by “Trust”
After billions lost to hacks and sanctions fines, security tooling should be a no-brainer sale.
Start-ups have built world-class scanners that spit out exploit lists in minutes, and forensic engines that trace dirty funds in real time.
But banks buy relationships, not code.
Procurement check-lists start with:
“Is the vendor on the regulator’s recommended list? Do the Big Four lend their letter-head? Has it served a state-owned bank before?”
A team that wins every CTF final can still lose every RFP.
The “absolute necessity” becomes the most reliable graveyard: great tech, zero traction, revenue rounded to zero.
III. Industrial Use-Cases: The Upgrade No One Asked For
Carbon trading, cross-border provenance, medical-data sharing—each sounds like a trillion-dollar pain point that only an immutable ledger can solve.
Then the purchasing manager asks the killer question:
“It’s neat, but why should I pay more for a ‘trust’ sticker when MySQL does the job at one-tenth the cost?”
Once subsidies dry up, the pilot lights go out.
Without a cost or trust edge that is impossible to replicate with a traditional database, blockchain becomes the glossy exhibit in a government showroom—impressive, unused, unplugged at night.
IV. Digital Identity & Judicial Evidence: Shackled by the Greater Good
Self-sovereign identity, on-chain court evidence, government transparency—initiatives with unimpeachable social value.
They are also infrastructure public goods: everyone wants them, no one wants to pay.
A two-year pilot to put academic credentials on-chain ended the moment universities replied, “We already have a database.”
Court-record projects survive as one-off IT contracts with single-digit margins and no path to scale.
When your business model is “some ministry might renew the grant,” you don’t have a business; you have a PowerPoint stranded between policy papers.
V. DAOs: Human Nature Wears the Crown
Decentralised governance is Web3’s constitutional dream: code is law, community is king, treasuries are managed by open vote.
Reality reads like a satire.
OpenGov mechanisms designed to bind whale and protocol interests end up funding private-jet liveries and KOLs with 300 followers, while core dev grant proposals are voted down.
The smartest contract cannot compile away culture gaps, rent-seeking clusters or short-sighted apes.
The “correct” governance model is shackled by the oldest bugs in human firmware.
VI. Picking the Lock: Start Where the Shackles Are Smallest
Every one of these directions is logically flawless and commercially lethal because each attaches to a link in the real world—law, cost structures, human incentives—that refuses to be disrupted from first principles.
Break-out will not come from grander narratives but from micro-wedges:
A remittance corridor that actually shaves 1 % off FX cost.
A supply-chain invoice that a bank will discount because the hash is tamper-proof and the court recognises it.
A compliance tool that saves an institution more in fines than it costs in licence fees.
The first team that pops open a single shackle—legal, economic or behavioural—won’t just build a company; it will lighten the load for everyone still dragging the chain.
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