Good morning.

Recently, several interesting phenomena have been observed.

The SOL community has launched a creator reward mechanism, which essentially means using real money to activate ecosystem engagement and attract developers and content creators to stay and co-build. Butterfly is playing with slippage design—by adjusting mechanisms to give users a reason to participate more long-term. Both projects are pointing in the same direction: retaining people through incentives.

FOUR is taking a different approach. Pushing transaction speed and efficiency to the extreme, which is indeed a technological advantage. But here’s the problem—can traffic be converted just by being fast enough? Is community stickiness sufficient if there’s only speed and no reason to retain?

Pure performance competition can easily be surpassed. The real challenge is how to make participants willing to stay, build, and participate long-term in this ecosystem. The future direction of FOUR is worth watching.