BHawk

Let me clarify, I have never been more bullish on Cardano. The ecosystem has advanced at an unbelievable pace over the last year. 1. The developer experience is crisp. Aiken, Plu-ts, Opshin, Helios and Scalus have made it unbelievably easy to onboard new developers regardless of their programming background. Similarly there are a ton of offchain frameworks in pretty much every language from TypeScript/JavaScript, Rust, Haskell, Go, Java and even C++. 2. ZK primitives are live, dApps can leverage these primitives to benefit from huge performance enhancements and to implement new privacy features that allow them to interact with real world data without sacrificing user privacy. 3. The primitives required for Optimistic and ZK rollups are live, layer two rollup solutions are coming to Cardano, and they will inherit the security and decentralization of the L1 in ways that are simply impossible in other ecosystems. 4. Account abstraction primitives are here and many of the most talented developers in the ecosystem are taking advantage of them. This enables a huge number of features for the ecosystem. It allows users from other chains to directly interact with Cardano with their native wallets (ie Metamask). It allows for Babel Fees, soul-bound tokens, and even direct orders on pool-based protocols. Through smart wallets, users can trade on their favorite protocols without even submitting a transaction on the layer one (intent-based message passing).