Key part?
Neah, not even close!
Rember NFTs? They were supposed to...do something!
Ordinals and inscriptions were supposed again to pave the way for something something!
The whole Defi thing was going to revolutionize finance yet still 99% of the users go for CEX<>banks!
All these have just turned into fads, buzzwords, pump and dump schemes, call them whatever as they are a bit of everything except for "key parts".
And just because somebody is throwing millions at it and somebody else is making millions it doesn't change that, sports cards are a 10 billion industry in the US, but nobody is claiming it's some key feature of NBA or NFL.
I have seen $MFER in the market being listed on high-tier exchanges, it's getting viral now.
Shiba Inu rocked the crypto would way harder than this and still it pales in comparison to one single decision a state makes for or against Bitcoin, meme coins are here to stay, and they will make the headlines, but in the end, there will be nothing more than collectible cards, a somewhat wealthy industry but nothing more, not enough to steer cryptos in one direction or other.