Starknet is definitely built on conviction. “Building with conviction is different. Conviction means grinding through years when no one cares, when progress flatlines, and when the narrative isn’t the hot trend. It means holding a belief that looks foolish until time and persistence prove otherwise.” from day one, Starknet has embodied this idea. while much of the ecosystem chased short-term hype, the Starknet ecosystem kept iterating on: - exploring BTCFi - pushing L2 decentralization - building the L2² vision work that often seemed out of step with the trend of the moment, but is starting to make sense now. “Years of obscurity, until people finally see the vision believed in all along.” that’s exactly where we are now. after a year in the shadows, the vision is visible: network-performance and UX breakthroughs, a hardened stack, BTCfi initiative launching this week, and a growing ecosystem that validates the long game. it’s no accident that top-tier projects and founders have recently chosen to build on Starknet, including: - Paradex, one of the fastest-growing perp DEXs/chain on the market - Extended, a top-tier Perp DEX built by ex-Revolut executives - Daydreams, an AI-agent framework - Focus Tree, a consumer app that has already onboarded ~800k blockchain newcomers to Ethereum “the next great company, investment, or personal breakthrough won’t be the one that was instantly gratifying or went viral in a week. It will be the one that refused to die.” many called us a dead chain. Understandable given the post-TGE metrics, but we refused to die. now everything is in place to take off, and the economy is coming back, as shown by every metric: transactions, active users, TVL... and BTCfi has not even started. let’s see how it plays out now, but I’m very optimistic about the future. ps: great article below, definitely worth a read.

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