In crypto, what passes for "innovation" these days feels utterly uncompelling compared to what's happening in AI — at least from an attention economy standpoint. For real human users, AI delivers such profoundly disruptive, addictive experiences that it's almost impossible to resist.By contrast, crypto products offer zero meaningful usability, zero delight, and zero genuine product-market fit. They provide no visceral thrill in actual usage. The only dopamine hit left is pure speculation. At this point, Crypto 1.0 should simply own its lane: it's for gamblers.Crypto 1.0's real historical contribution wasn’t about delivering usable products to mainstream users. Its true purpose was to serve as the necessary R&D phase — building the foundational technology, infrastructure, security models, and talent base that will ultimately power Crypto 2.0.