Last cycle, ETH created a ton of novel use cases for the tech that caused it to ascend and challenge Bitcoin. the Bitcoiners responded with lazer-eyed maximalism and never wavered. It worked. ETH is yet to flip BTC. This cycle, Solana made some noise and caused the ETH community to look inward. ETH is now: • embracing Defi as a foundational use-case as evidenced by ETH foundation depositing into aave • embracing wall street capital as evidenced by @Etherealize_io • questioning core values and coalescing around a unified vision Lessons in this. This is all part of the growing process.