Press enter or click to view image in full size I was chatting with a CTO friend not long ago, and he told me a story that honestly sounded exaggerated at first. Their team wanted to add $BTC and Solana wallets — nothing fancy, just a basic feature to stay competitive. They planned $40K and four weeks. Pretty standard. Eighteen months later, they had spent $380K, and users were still complaining about “missing” funds. At some point, it stopped being a feature and quietly turned into their core business. Why “adding crypto” quietly turned into running a 24/7 financial system What caught them off guard wasn’t the integration itself — that part actually went relatively smoothly. The real problem started after launch, when the system had to work in the real world. Blockchains don’t behave like traditional fintech rails. Fees spike, transactions get stuck, networks lag, and users expect instant answers no matter what time it is.…