permissionless to use. permissioned to succeed.

look at the distribution. entire continents barely exist on the map.
(check image before reading)
capital in crypto is still geographically clustered. and where capital clusters, everything else follows - attention, partnerships etc..
everyone likes to pretend the internet flattened the world. it didn’t. it just made the gaps less obvious… until you visualize them.
the uncomfortable reality is this: decentralization mostly applies to users, not builders. anyone can use a protocol. not everyone can win building one. if you’re outside major capital hubs, you’re not competing on equal footing.
africa, 1.4 billion people. a continent where the average citizen has watched savings evaporate through currency devaluation.
southeast asia, home to some of the most mobile-first, remittance-dependent populations on earth barely earns a bubble lol.
yet these are the regions where crypto’s founding promise was supposed to matter most.
bank the unbanked.
remove the middleman.
give financial sovereignty to the powerless.
instead, they get barely enough.
until we acknowledge that geography still shapes results, most conversations about fairness and decentralization in web3 will remain cosmetic and bullshit.