Crypto’s history is written in collapses.
The pattern is always the same: centralisation → opacity → collapse.
Today, Portal mainnet launches.
BTCFi built on self-custody, no middlemen.
This is how the cycle finally breaks. 🧵
Mt. Gox. Luna. FTX.
10 Oct '25 was Crypto’s Black Friday. $19B erased in hours.
Each collapse erases billions and proves the same point: custodial trust breaks.
Here’s how CT reacted… and why Portal’s mainnet launch today is a turning point.
Collapse comes from rushing fragile rails.
We take the opposite path:
• Stress-test in the wild
• Expand as stability is proven
Bitcoin has run incorruptible for 15 years. BTCFi must be built with the same discipline.
Empires fall the same way: promises, debt, control.
Bitcoin proved value could live outside their system.
Portal proves you can trade there too without asking.
No vaults, no bridges, no middlemen.
Every swap is a rejection of custody.
Every block is a refusal of control.
The rails of BTCFi don’t belong to them.
They belong to you.
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