Do you remember where you were in mid-2021 ? If you look at the tech headlines from that era, the world was obsessed with two things: the Metaverse and NFTs . Every VC was dumping millions into digital land, and corporations were frantically changing their names to sound more "web3." But behind closed doors in San Francisco, Seattle, and deep inside private Discord servers, a small group of developers and researchers were experiencing a collective, silent panic. We weren't looking...