Explain why 'the big environment has changed'? Essentially, the wave of enthusiasm brought by AI Agents is a major reshuffling of the past rigid Crypto system.
From infra stacking -> AI Agent application precedence?
In the past, delivering a public blockchain required a long cycle of 1-3 years of cultivation. After completing the Roadmap and TGE, it was found that users and application ecosystems struggled to match market expectations, leading to many infrastructures detached from actual market needs.
In the future, for any project, first let AI Agents run on-chain, allowing the functions, performance, and experience of AI Agents to validate the technical foundation of the chain infrastructure. Use application precedence to verify market demand, avoiding the situation where solutions are brought without practical applications.
From VC round financing -> Community MEME-driven initiation?
In the past, VC capital drove the emergence of top-tier projects, and the information monopoly in the primary market led to increasingly cramped profit margins in the secondary market, causing Western and Eastern capital to avoid taking over each other's positions, with VCs and exchanges colluding, resulting in issues like high FDV declines after Token listings.
In the future, projects will be built in the form of open-source Public Goods, with no white papers in the short term but having a GitHub open-source repository. There will be no Roadmap, but there will be visible product applications, directly financing from the secondary market, allowing AI Agents to autonomously manage assets. The continuous growth of asset pools and holders will bring greater imaginative space for projects, with early Builders only needing to continuously empower the projects.
From grabbing airdrops -> Partner co-building?
In the past, project parties often offered a certain percentage of airdrops to attract early users and traffic. Users continuously contributed gas and time to grab airdrops, leading to either a 'witch community' culture where participants earned profits and fled, putting operational pressure on projects, or a long-term situation where many were PUA'd by project parties, failing to meet expectations or providing empty promises, resulting in inevitable contradictions and conflicts, a win-lose situation.
In the future, project parties will open trading in a MEME-driven secondary manner, designing Tokenomics suitable for sustained growth (LP fees, transaction taxes, reserved share releases, etc.). In this process, community users will be both early investors and ongoing builders of community consensus, and those who accompany the project to profit in the end are generally deserving, leading to a win-win situation.
From CEX token listing conclusion -> On-chain DEX domination?
In the past, most projects during the DEX phase had low circulation and user base. Only through Tokenomics design, continuous community reputation and growth, and resource 'mixing' could one gain entry into CEX. Under heavy pressure, some projects would lie flat after TGE.
In the future, most projects will choose to continuously build during the DEX phase. On-chain DEX will take on most of the market liquidity. Although on-chain prosperity may present a 'chaotic era', high-quality project parties are more likely to achieve 'grassroots counterattacks' without being buried under the old system's CEX discourse, gradually tending towards DEX as the mainstay, with CEX existing only as a liquidity supplement.
From entrepreneurs 'not speaking human language' -> Founders 'laughing and cursing'?
The market used to be very competitive, with many projects, resulting in a vast gap between leading and trailing projects. Founders of leading projects, after achieving success, began to focus on vague pursuits, engaging in charity and philanthropic endeavors.
In the future, project parties will not integrate with the community, and if they do not focus on the product frontline, it will be difficult for the market and ecosystem to emerge. The new rules of market operation will force founders to be on the front lines 'laughing and cursing'. Although this may invite doubts, a 'real' developer image is always better than a lofty 'entrepreneur'? At least from the perspective of retail investors.
Note: The above transformation and reshuffling are not absolute and will not happen overnight. More likely, various mixed models will emerge, and there will likely be many problems in the early stages. Regardless, it is a glimmer of hope to break the rigidity of the current system.