EthCC left me with a clear impression: this space is growing up, fast, and the room for pretending is shrinking. You could feel the cycle. Less crowd, less noise, less tourist energy. And with agentic AI speeding everything up, the crypto job market has tightened hard. A lot of capable people are searching, while real opportunities are limited. What stood out most is how many teams are running low on runway. Some try to mask it, but it shows. Too many conversations start with funding instead of product. And the investor presence reflected that shift. Someone told me they normally speak with dozens of funds at these events, this time it was closer to single digits. But the capital has not disappeared. It has rotated. A lot of it is parked in stablecoins. People are still here, they just do not believe in most tokens anymore. The era of empty token stories is fading, and honestly, that is healthy. From here, only sustainable products with real utility, real revenue, and real yield will matter, especially on stablecoin liquidity. That is exactly the direction we are building toward at HOOKED. Infrastructure that keeps stablecoin capital productive without needing hype, and liquidity rails that can actually support serious scale. The next phase will not reward promises. It will reward execution. What was your @EthCC takeaway? Did it feel like a reset, or the start of a new chapter?