The era of every project running its own chain is fading fast. In a single week, multiple protocols signaled that the cost of maintaining standalone infrastructure no longer adds up. A ZK-powered Layer 2 that raised $60 million is shutting down its blockchain, Berachain is rewriting its core incentive layer with a hard fork, and Kraken-incubated Ink is outsourcing chain operations to Optimism. Meanwhile, two overcollateralized stablecoins are trading well below their dollar pegs, a Tornado Cash DAO proposal raised alarms over a potential $23 million governance exploit, and Polymarket’s internal cash token revealed extreme wealth concentration. The picture that emerges from the weekly roundup from WuBlockchain is one of projects soberly cutting costs, retiring tokens, and refocusing on applications rather than infrastructure — a shift that could reshape how value flows across the ecosystem.