These are bullish days in crypto.

Well, they were. This week's wild sell-offs allow a moment of space to look back on a heady yesterday when many felt the good times would never have a hiccup again.

On May 3, amid the gains, MakerDAO Foundation alum Mariano Conti tweeted out the following challenge:

Challenge accepted.

For younger readers, The Police were a great 1980s band that launched the legend of the great solo act known as Sting. One of the band's classic songs is 1978's "So Lonely." Most of the lyrics of "So Lonely" consist of crooning "so lonely" over and over with various vocal and guitar rejoinders.

But it does have two proper verses. Revised for crypto, those were more than enough to evoke the spirit of these times. It will require other talents than those I was bequeathed, I'm afraid, to turn this into a recorded track.

Until the charts see green again, here's a tune meant to evoke optimistic days:

Someone told me yesterdayThat when you sell your ETH for gainsIt's just like saving for a rainy dayLocking in your savvy ways

But I can see the coming flipDeFi making TradFi tripAnd all my artsy NFTsDisrupting hipster snobbery

Up onlyUp onlyUp onlyUp only

Up onlyUp onlyUp only

Up onlyUp onlyUp only

Up onlyUp only

Now Bitcoin's losing dominanceAnd Vitalik's taking prominenceI've twelve and twenty staked on 2*For when devs say that 1 is through

Taking gains at 8%Unless I have slash eventYou give your heart, I run my nodeIt proves my stake will not erode

Up onlyUp onlyUp onlyUp only

Up onlyUp onlyUp only

Up only

Up onlyUp only

Up onlyUp only

Up only (I see it)Up only (I see it)

Up only (I feel)Gotta hold, gotta hold

It's gonna go!Up onlyUp onlyUp only

Up onlyUp only

Only, ETH's onlyUp onlyUp onlyUp only

Up onlyUp only

Holding only!Up onlyUp onlyUp only

I see it!Up only

I holdI hold

I hold hold holdI hold hold hold

I holdI hold

I hold hold hold

It's up onlyUp onlyI'm gonna hold

Hold onlyUp onlyI only holdI only hold

Up only (I'm holdin')Up only (I'm holdin')Up only (I'm holdin')Up only (I'm holdin')Up only (I'm holdin')Up only (I'm holdin')

* Running an Ethereum 2.0 validator requires a minimum of 32 ETH to run. Ethereum 1.0 used proof-of-work, not proof-of-stake. At first the old chain will run as a part of Ethereum 2.0 but many expect it to someday wind down.