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I didn’t lose interest in crypto because I stopped believing in the technology. I lost interest because, at some point, I realized how much effort it demanded from people who just wanted something to work. Every interaction felt like a small test: do you understand gas, timing, wallets, signatures, network congestion, irreversible mistakes? For those of us steeped in it, this friction became normal. For everyone else, it was a reason to walk away.
That’s the part of adoption we don’t like to admit. Crypto doesn’t fail because people are uninterested in self-custody or open systems. It fails because the experience keeps reminding users that they are using a blockchain. And most people don’t want to feel the machinery beneath the surface.
This is why I’ve been paying attention to Fogo, not with excitement, but with a kind of cautious respect. What stands out isn’t speed or technical bravado. It’s the decision to start from infrastructure discipline instead of interface cosmetics. The assumption seems to be that if the foundation behaves consistently, humane experiences can finally be built on top of it.
The simplest example is fees. In theory, variable fees are efficient. In practice, they’re exhausting. A system where the cost of an action changes based on invisible conditions trains users to hesitate. People begin timing transactions, second-guessing themselves, or abandoning actions entirely. Predictable fees don’t sound revolutionary, but they restore something basic: confidence. When users know what will happen before they click, they stop treating every interaction like a gamble.
Another quiet shift is how user behavior is treated. Crypto often frames mistakes as user error. Lost keys, abandoned wallets, half-finished transactions—these are usually blamed on education gaps. But that framing misses the point. People behave the way they behave. Systems either accommodate that reality or remain niche. Fogo’s infrastructure-first mindset seems to accept this without judgment, using behavioral patterns as inputs rather than inconveniences to be corrected.
This is where on-chain data, through systems like Neutron, starts to matter in a practical sense. Not as analytics dashboards for insiders, but as feedback mechanisms that reflect how real people interact with applications. When developers can observe friction directly at the protocol level, design becomes less about theory and more about response. It’s not perfect, and it raises questions about interpretation and misuse, but it’s closer to how mature platforms evolve.
Kayon, the AI reasoning layer, is where my skepticism sharpens but doesn’t turn dismissive. The promise isn’t intelligence for its own sake, but abstraction. If a system can infer intent—what a user is trying to do—without demanding precise, technical instructions every time, the experience shifts. Ideally, this feels like helpful automation. The risk, of course, is opacity. If something goes wrong and the user can’t understand why, trust erodes quickly. Whether this balance is struck well remains an open question.
What grounds all of this, for me, is the utility and subscription-based model. Crypto has conditioned people to participate for upside, not reliability. That works until speculation drains meaning from usage. A subscription model quietly asks a different question: is this dependable enough to pay for repeatedly? That’s a tougher standard than hype, and it forces alignment around real value instead of short-term attention.
None of this guarantees success. Infrastructure-led projects can struggle to attract ecosystems. Predictability can break under extreme conditions. Making blockchain “invisible” risks hiding accountability when systems fail. These are not small concerns, and they shouldn’t be waved away.
But I keep coming back to how most successful technologies actually won. Not by being exciting forever, but by becoming unremarkable. Electricity, internet protocols, cloud services—they faded into the background because they earned trust through consistency. You stop thinking about them because you don’t have to.
If crypto is ever going to matter to people who don’t already care about crypto, it will likely follow the same path. Less spectacle. More reliability. Fogo feels like an attempt to do that quiet work. It may not succeed, and it won’t solve everything. But it’s at least asking the right question: what if the best blockchain experience is the one you barely notice at all?

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