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The Drawdown Playbook: Build Like an Infrastructure Company
Bitcoin is down 44%. Optimism is cutting staff. Treasuries are bleeding. The projects that survive this drawdown will be the ones that stopped running like startups and started running like infrastructure companies.
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The Drawdown Playbook: Build Like an Infrastructure Company
Bitcoin is down 44%. Optimism is cutting staff. Treasuries are bleeding. The projects that survive this drawdown will be the ones that stopped running like startups and started running like infrastructure companies.
Launch Week Is a Liquidity Test, Not a Victory Lap
A launch is not proof that demand exists; it is a stress test for incentives, liquidity quality, and whether the story can survive first contact with the market.
"Another L2" and the Cost of Sounding Generic
A structured review of the claims, proof gaps, and narrative problems behind the endless stream of identical Layer 2 pitches.