It's been an eventful year for Particle. Over the past year, we have launched and grown into a genre-defining movement. We are the world's first people-powered museum bridging the world of digital and traditional art. To celebrate our progress and to provide context for what's coming, let's review the year's main events. 

Blockchain and smart contract technology enable P2P trading (DEXs), have given rise to Decentralized Finance (Defi), and are on track to rewrite the entire Internet (Web3). This tech has also produced a new class of assets called stablecoins and synthetics. Both of these enable the creation of digital copies of real-world assets. For stablecoins, this means cryptocurrencies that always trade at the price of their fiat counterparts. For synthetics, this means the same but for any arbitrary stock or bond. 

Particle was born with the vision to be the People's museum. The people have formed and are organizing under the ParticleDAO banner to acquire and manage humanity's great works of art. This DAO is the lifeblood of the Particle ecosystem. It energizes and invigorates the vision of the movement.