DREAM. DARE. DO. WIN. 🔥 I visited the Cologne Cathedral earlier this year and want to share a quick story that feels oddly parallel to our own. I was stunned to learn it took 632 years to complete (started in 1248). Multiple generations coordinated across centuries (wtf?) and never departed from the original master plan. Giving your entire life to something you won’t see finished is both mindboggling and inspiring. It also tells you that they weren’t building just for their own benefit but out of faith, for future generations to benefit, and as a tribute to a power far greater than themselves. This extraordinary feat has many parallels to our own journey although in a much smaller capacity. We’ve always been driven by a single vision: build a global cathedral of commerce that touches every human (and AI) on the planet. It was hard to pursue this vision in its totality with @tradeparadigm given the many constraints placed on us by the CEXs.....BUT WE KEPT BUILDING. Today we’re on the precipice of freedom and we’re a few steps away from owning the entire stack that powers this future. But something else is happening that is magical ✨ Others are beginning to see OUR vision as THE vision for the future of finance. There will only be a handful of financial megacities in the internet economy, and we find ourselves in the lead to be one of them. The Defi Supercenter thesis is coming to life. This is special. I hope each of you, especially those who’ve been with me since the beginning, feel the gravity of what we’ve overcome to get here, and that you feel the energy of finally being unconstrained to run our own race from here on. I’ve never been more excited about our future. Our story is about a group of people who stuck it out against impossible odds while pushing each other to be better every single day. We dared to dream. We dared to do. Now it’s our time to FUCKING WIN 💪 Paradexio