Ethereum has staking, governance, and $500M launches. Still no way to reward people who actually helped.

Think about it.

Most of the value in early Ethereum projects didn’t come from investors. It came from contributors.
Writers. Meme makers. Hackers. People in Telegram chats trying to explain things before there was even a whitepaper. Translators who never got paid. Mods who dealt with messes when no one else wanted to.

And then what?

Usually nothing.

Maybe a thank you. Maybe airdrop if they were lucky. Usually ignored.

Meanwhile protocols are raising $50M and building “community treasuries” with no actual community memory. Just wallets and vibes.

Ethereum is a coordination layer. So why can’t we coordinate this?

Still no native system to track contribution. Not activity. Not speculation. Actual contribution. The stuff that makes people care. That makes projects work.

We built entire financial layers and forgot the people who made the ground floor livable.

Brutal.

Everyone talks about on-chain rep. But no one’s actually using it.

What if Proof of Growth was real?

Not as a buzzword. Not a bounty board. A protocol.

Could it even work? Or is this just something crypto will always cope with and forget?

I’ve got thoughts. Curious if anyone here does too.