Adoption isn't El Salvador's president holding Bitcoin on stage—it's the unglamorous reality: a grandmother in Lagos using USDC to receive remittances because her local bank charges 12%, a supply chain manager in Vietnam tracking shipments on Polygon because it costs $0.003 per transaction, a teenager in Argentina converting pesos to stablecoins during inflation spikes. The narrative we sell is revolution; what actually happens is friction reduction in places where the existing system already failed.