Yes, Ethereum. This is literally the only ecosystem / community that constantly puts out interesting research, stands for fundamentals, and so on. But recently there has been tons of maximalism and shitstorm found on ETH crypto twitter. Ameen of Spankchain is trying to harass everyone, every other researcher and founder wants to make his own ICO to get some capital, and more bullshit fights with one another concerning what's better: BTC or ETH. Not helping anybody, bear market got to the best ones this time.
5. DeFi fights, little innovation
DeFi has been the biggest adoption play of Ethereum that made everything stand out during the bear of 2018. A lot of cool tools like Compound, Dharma, DyDx, and so on. The idea was on-chain lending, collateral, credit, and so on. But recently Compound has been criticized heavily for not doing proper audits, USDC is getting more momentum (fyi MakerDAO Dai is the decentralized collateral stablecoin, and USDC is the usual KYC/AML one). There has not been much innovation out there, feels stangating. Perhaps it's time for adoption to come to that innovation. Let's see how it developers, there is still hardly anything more interesting than that out there today.
6. Back to the ponzi roots
Due to low liquidity and lack of innovation - chineze ponzis are more of a thing these days again. People just participate in pyramids and get rekt this way, because they love gambling. Once the fundamentals (huh?) are back in town, we might see more meaningful stuff, but for now the market says "no, let's gamble, let them code".
7. 4chan and reddit demystified
4chan was for a long time perceived as a holy grail of manipulation: chainlink growth, holochain, things like chx or qnt - are the babies of that platform. The truth is more trivial though: those are simply influencer groups pumping with MM as with any other platform. Reddit had IOTA and NANO offloading on uneducated people. 4chan had those. There is more to the art than it