2018–2019

The infrastructure built during the winter

Across two years of falling prices and quiet projects, the base components were built: the on-chain dollar, wallet custody, lending, automated swaps.

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Why it happened

  1. 01投机退场后,注意力与人才集中到少数仍在推进的方向。
  2. 02这些组件不涨价、不好讲、开发周期长 —— 只有在无人炒作时才有耐心做。
  3. 03它们彼此的接口在此期间逐步对齐。

Before · After

Before

On-chain finance was a set of scattered attempts whose components could not call each other.

After

A set of components that plug into one another was in place, waiting to be combined.

Why it matters

Every brick that got assembled in 2020 came out of these two years.

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