Some thoughts that me and my partners discussed recently:
1. BTC is now a completely separate asset class. Institutions are getting into BTC regardless of no web3 innovation. They think it’s a safe heaven from USD/CNY and all the other geopolitical instability.
2. Web3 has no killer app yet. People are waiting for the next BIG THING in web3. The crypto/blockchain world has been there for more than 10 years, there isn’t a real application that sustains user other than the trading system. This is a major problem for the ecosystem, especially for ETH.
3. Maybe stablecoin is the real thing for blockchain. Stop talking about a new Internet, for now at least stablecoin is a great regulation arbitrage, most innovation came from regulation arbitrage(e.g. Uber, pornhub, etc), we actually do need a faster and secure financial system.