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3) I firmly believe that the big upside in DeFi lies in an ecosystem that has billions of users and trillions of dollars of assets flowing through it. This almost *has* to be the upside. And to get there, DeFi needs to think big.

4) Part of thinking big is throughput and speed and cost. Part of it is building the best products. And part of it is getting huge products to adopt it.

5) Crypto has made a bunch of advancements over time. It's built the best payment infrastructure, innovating exchanges, hard money, decentralized protocols, and more. So far, though, it's still struggling to integrate into the rest of the world.

6) Or, maybe, the rest of the world is failing to integrate into it. That's really the goal: when real large business and projects decide that crypto is right for them.

7) In the first few months, Serum saw a fast on-chain orderbook and matching engine; tons of wallet integrations; NFTs; and tons of tooling: serum-academy.com/en/built-on-se But in the background, more was building. Big things.

8) And, soon, those things will go live. projectserum.com/tokens

9) @bonfidadotcom is an all-purpose portal: the flagship Serum GUI; Serum API feeds and statistics; NFTs; tooling; and more. Media Network is a decentralized, censorship-resistant live stream hosting protocol.

10) Oxygen is the most ambitious risk management system in DeFi so far: a combination borrow/lending, prime brokerage, risk engine, yield generating, produce design protocol.

11) Paypal is likely the product with the largest userbase in crypto, at around 300m. Soon, the second largest will probably be MAPS.