I wish the ecosystem would become more aware of builders vs hypers. I have been building on Cardano for 4+ years, and after 5 catalysts, the community still pans us for even trying (even though we have one of the only profitable business modals on chain, and have releasing products consistantly for our entire existance).
Ive seen so many legitimate builders essentially forced out of the ecosystem because, from what Ive noticed, building a profitable product with a user base is the best way to get hated on this chain from the community writ-large (olympus insights for example - 17k users on their education platform, cant raise 100k).
Instead, we have thrown millions at Ardana, Meld, Apes, AXO, and thats just a few of the biggest. Until we can adjust our approach, and support those that have provably build successfull businesses - we are just throwing money into the wind. But rather than change this attitude, we just give money to a few girls to take pictures of themselves around the world 😂
Im a builder, and I have recieved 0 support from CF, IOHK, IOG, and any Cardano Fundraising mechanism. How many unprofitable products do they support? But we will keep building because we are here to make the worlds financial systems a better place (If I wanted money, Id have stayed a stock-broker where I make 3x my current income, and work half the hours, AND get weekends 😂).
So until we change this attitude that hype, not builders, deserve funding - we will have marketing machines that keep draining community funds. The community know who the builders are - are still only support maybe 3 of them 😂 and honestly, its rotten from the top. Charles pushes rugs onto the community to pump his own bags as average - he is against builders on his own chain unless it pumps his own bags. The community will follow the leader - and the leader wants to disenfranchise builders away from his chain. Its not complex. Its just a logical consequence of treating builders poorly, and supporting hype machines that are pretending to invent an "Impermanent-risk free DEx 😂"