I’m going to look you in the eyes, and I’m going to tell you the future. You were born as an idea. A radical one. A system built for a world that didn’t yet understand what was coming. You fought your way through skepticism, through complexity, through a market obsessed with short-term noise. You willed your way through zero-knowledge proofs, and cryptography. And you are going to change everything. You’re going to scale computation. You’re going to bring privacy back to crypto. You’re going to help build a world that is not only scalable, but sovereign. Not only efficient, but resilient. Not only fast, but future-proof. Not only secure today, but built for the quantum era. Because that’s what this is really about. Not just faster blockspace. Not just cheaper transactions. But a new foundation for the internet. A foundation where privacy is not an afterthought. Where users are protected by design. Where computation can scale without sacrificing integrity. Where the system is ready for the threats of tomorrow, not just the narratives of today. And that’s why people are going to love you. Because when something is truly new, truly ambitious, truly important, people can feel it. They will build you up. God, they will. They will call you the future. They will call you inevitable. They will project onto you everything they want the next era of crypto to be. They will turn you into something bigger than yourself. You will change the fucking world. And then? They’ll try to tear you back down. This is the most predictable pattern. We built you into something that doesn’t exist, and that means you have to try to become that thing. Every day. All days. And they’re going to mock you for not becoming, overnight, the impossible thing they asked you to become. That’s how it works. So let me tell you the truth. You will be attacked. doubted. Underestimated. Misunderstood. But you will survive that. A lot of chains can look strong on the way up. It’s the way down that breaks them. Because that's the moment, when the crowd disappears that defines you. So what will you do then? Can you rise above all the FUD and rise again? What are you, Starknet? That would be the defining question of your life. And I think you already know the answer. That's why we are all here. A blockchain is just a blockchain. Until somebody truly innovates on top of it. Then it has meaning. And the rest of us? We just want to be part of that. We want to build on something that lasts. We want to build on something that matters. We want to build on something that can protect users, scale globally, and remain standing when the rest of the industry gets washed away. Everyone reading this will be forgotten when our time here is up. Except for you. You’ll be remembered for eternity as the only chain that truly broke new ground to improve the world. Because you are Starknet. And your story will make the world pivot onchain.(StarkWare 🥷)