A couple of days ago, I received an invitation and attended the second season Demo Day for entrepreneurs at a certain incubator. To be honest, I used to be just a student running around to various events, only focusing on individual projects—checking out a DeFi protocol one day, and keeping an eye on an NFT platform the next.

But this time was different.

When you’re sitting in that venue, surrounded by founders, investors, and tech leads, each talking about what they're building, suddenly a lot of the fragmented pieces come together. Some are working on Layer2 infrastructure, others on on-chain data tools, and some teams are focused on Web3 social protocols. Each of these things might seem unremarkable on its own, but when you look at them together, you realize they mesh like gears.

That feeling is truly fascinating—it’s like you usually only see a single tree, but this time you finally see the entire forest growing. People often say “the times are accelerating,” and it turns out that’s not just empty talk; you can actually feel it in a single room.

Shifting from an observer to an insider, the perspective really does change completely.