The CROPS (Censorship Resistant Open-source Privacy Security) mandate that the Ethereum Foundation adopted, will be remembered as one of the most successful strategies in crypto history. As the industry continues its rotation games and appeal to the retail masses, differentiation in products is rapidly fading. >Everything is becoming an everything app >“Distribution is all that matters” is the motto being echoed. >90% of current YC crypto batches are neobanks >Tokenization is being praised as if it’s a technological breakthrough and not a purely legal feat. >”The simpler the narrative the easier it is to sell to normies” It’s all a melting pot. The one thing that stands out amidst the slop, the one platform that’s maintaining its global status, the one place where crypto values still prevail, the one chain where secular growth and adoption continues, the only thing that’s at the center of or adjacent to or underpinning every crypto trend …is Ethereum. Each of the pillars of CROPS are equally important for Ethereum to maintain its status and adoption. Every other narrative will find a way to exist without stewardship. But CROPS requires a special mandate. A strict mission. A defining purpose. Because it’s something that wouldn’t be a priority otherwise. Yet it’s something that makes everything else possible. Centralization is like gravity. Decentralization requires a finely tuned machine that is regularly maintained with CROPS level quality control to defy that gravity. Ethereum is that machine. CROPS is the standard. The infinite garden is in the heavens. ETH is the spaceship to get us there.