The spotlight fades, but the real building continues.

When market noise dies down and everyone's attention drifts elsewhere, the actual work accelerates in the background. This is the critical phase—where positioning silently unfolds, where genuine progress happens without fanfare or social validation.

Look at the price chart. Sure, it's down.

But look at the underlying development. The process? It never stopped.

This is how TAO and other serious projects move forward during bear cycles—quietly compounding, building the infrastructure that'll matter in the next cycle. The ones that get distracted by attention die. The ones that keep shipping? They win.