Auli Takala

The year 2026 has brought a quiet realization to the Web3 community: Scalability was never the final boss. While we ve successfully pushed TPS (Transactions Per Second) to impressive heights, we have done so by sacrificing predictability, privacy, and long-term security. Developers today are caught in a "Trilemma of Friction":

The Gas Tax: Unpredictable fees that make micro-transactions impossible.

Quantum Vulnerability: The looming threat of Shor's algorithm against classical ECDSA signatures.

Infrastructure Fragility: The reliance on public RPCs that offer zero hardware-level isolation.

The real founder coding vibe:

• You ship a small fix break 3 things

• You deploy confidently production crashes

• Local works perfectly Vercel says nah

• You spend 1 hour coding 4 hours debugging

• Slack notifications hit instant anxiety

Founders know the pain:
You re coding, marketing, fixing bugs, writing docs, and answering customer emails all at the same time.

What s your funniest or most painful founder-coding moment recently?
Let s vibe in the chaos