In the crypto world, everyone can fork the code or replicate a feature. But there's something you can't copy overnight: the culture. You can launch a competing protocol tomorrow, mirror the smart contracts, even undercut the fees. What you can't reproduce is the community trust, the ecosystem momentum, and the shared values that make a project stick. Culture is what separates a sustainable protocol from a flash-in-the-pan fork. It's why some DeFi platforms thrive while others wither despite identical mechanics. That's the real moat.