Lisk, which once positioned itself as a major supporter of Africa’s blockchain ecosystem, has shut down its blockchain. Base has also scaled back its push in Africa, and there are several other examples I can’t recall at the moment.
We will continue to see stories like this until we start building and owning our own infrastructure instead of depending entirely on foreign platforms and foreign priorities.
I have spent years building on BNB Chain and contributing real value to the ecosystem. Yet neither CZ nor BNB Chain has so much as acknowledged or liked a post, even times when Wiki Cat was, and is still one of the biggest things trending around BNB.
But I genuinely don’t care, because our survival does not depend on recognition from anyone.
We are doing well for ourselves.
We are building our own ecosystem, our own infrastructure, our own products, and our own community.
And most importantly, what we are building belongs to us.
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