Gavin Wood's post-Ethereum sequel raised $144M ICO in 2017 through the Web3 Foundation, with a follow-on sale in 2019. Hit $53B mcap in 2021 powered by the parachain auction narrative. Parachains actually shipped and most of them stayed empty, the stack got forked into Kusama and a hundred directions. DOT still runs, community is still loyal, the market stopped listening several cycles ago..