I don't think many people on HN realize how globally systemically important public blockchains are on track to become, especially Ethereum.

The understandable hatred of the casino and many scams has blinded most of HN as to the true potential of the technology and its associated new public institutions.

That's what a decentralized public blockchain is, a new kind of public institution.

One small example of this is that the most state-of-the-art perpetual futures market in the world is an Ethereum Layer 2 named Lighter https://app.lighter.xyz/markets/