According to @Nick_van_Eck, choosing to work for a “casino” team focused solely on a TGE is a skill issue, and many high-integrity, focused teams are building across L1/L2, perps, yield+ stablecoins, and lending (source: @Nick_van_Eck on X, Dec 6, 2025). He said he is more energized than ever to work in crypto and framed the current period as a rare moment to reinvent market structure, export capital markets globally, and transform credit and money (source: @Nick_van_Eck on X, Dec 6, 2025). For traders, his comments highlight builder concentration in core infrastructure and DeFi primitives rather than short-term TGE narratives, pointing attention to L1/L2, perps, yield-focused stablecoins, and lending segments for fundamentals-driven monitoring (source: @Nick_van_Eck on X, Dec 6, 2025).