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protocol revenue is testing conviction in carry strategies: reading the CFTC: Regulates tape

Ignoring protocol revenue because exchange reserves looks exciting is how late-cycle mistakes compound.

Improvements in protocol revenue without confirmation from exchange reserves tend to fade faster.

Even when feeds obsess over “SEC vs. CFTC: Who Regulates Crypto in the US?,” the durable question remains process versus prediction.

Most blow-ups start as comfortable consensus.

Ignoring Bitcoin because layer-2 networks looks exciting is how late-cycle mistakes compound.

Cycles rhyme, but the plumbing underneath keeps changing.

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