The trades that shaped me most weren't the smooth ones—they were brutal. Watching a position tank 70% and clawing back from there taught me things that easy wins never could.

Now I'm eyeing what comes next in the Solana layer 2 ecosystem. There's a project rolling out DLMM Pools soon, launching their own app over the next few months. Currently trading under 2 million in market cap—early days for sure.

The mechanics look solid on paper. You're essentially seeing a protocol trying to solve liquidity fragmentation on Solana's settlement layer. Whether it captures real volume or becomes another DeFi experiment that fades depends on execution and adoption velocity.