Why has the 'environment changed'? Essentially, the wave of AI Agents is a major reshuffle of the previously rigid Crypto system.
From infrastructure stacking -> AI Agent application prioritization?
In the past, delivering a public chain required a long cultivation period of 1-3 years. After completing the roadmap and TGE, it was found that user and application ecosystems could hardly match market expectations, resulting in many infrastructures that were disconnected from actual market demands.
In the future, regardless of the project, the first step is to let AI Agent applications run on-chain, allowing the functions, performance, and experience of AI Agents to validate the technical foundation of the chain infrastructure. By prioritizing applications to verify market demand, we can avoid bringing solutions without practical applications.
From VC funding rounds -> community MEME-driven launches?
In the past, VC capital drove the emergence of top-tier projects, and the information monopoly in the primary market led to increasingly narrow profit margins in the secondary market, causing Western and Eastern capital to avoid each other, with VCs and exchanges colluding, and numerous issues such as Token listings with high FDV continually declining.
In the future, projects will be built in the form of open-source public goods. There may be no white paper in the short term, but there will be a GitHub open-source repository, no roadmap, but visible product applications, directly financing from the secondary market, allowing AI Agents to autonomously manage assets. The continuous growth of the asset pool and holders will bring greater imagination space to the project, and early builders only need to continue empowering the project.
From harvesting airdrops -> partner co-creation?
In the past, project teams would usually offer a certain percentage of airdrops to acquire early users and traffic. Users would continuously contribute Gas and time to harvest airdrops, but this led to either a 'witch community' culture where participants quickly profited and exited, putting pressure on the project's subsequent operations, or a situation where many airdrop hunters were long-term gaslighted by the project team, failing to meet expectations or being left in the lurch, leading to inevitable conflicts and a lose-lose situation.
In the future, project teams will open the market using MEME-style secondary approaches, designing tokenomics suitable for sustainable growth (LP fees, transaction taxes, reserved share releases, etc.). In this process, community users will be both early investors and ongoing contributors to expanding community consensus, and those who ultimately accompany the project will basically be worth it, leading to a win-win situation.
From CEX listing as the endgame -> on-chain DEX domination?
In the past, most projects in the DEX phase had low liquidity and low user bases. Only through tokenomics design, continuous community reputation and growth, and resource 'mixing' could they obtain tickets to CEX. Under heavy pressure, some projects would lie flat after TGE.
In the future, most projects will choose to continue building 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 teams will have a greater chance to 'rise from the grassroots' without being buried under the old centralized exchange's narrative. The trend will gradually shift towards DEX being the main focus, with CEX existing only as a supplementary source of liquidity.
From entrepreneurs 'not speaking human language' -> founders 'laughing and cursing'?
In the past, the market was very competitive, with many projects leading to a vast gap between top-tier and bottom-tier projects. After the founders of top projects achieved success, they began to focus on abstract concepts, engaging in public welfare, charity, and maintaining a very halal image.
In the future, project teams that do not integrate with the community and do not remain focused on the product line will find it very difficult to gain a foothold in the market and ecosystem. The new market operating rules will force founders to be on the front lines, 'laughing and cursing', although this will also invite skepticism. However, a 'real' Dev image is certainly better than the aloof 'entrepreneur', at least from the perspective of retail investors.
Note: The transformation and reshuffling mentioned above is not absolute, nor will it happen overnight. It is more likely to give rise to a mix of multiple models. In the early stages, there will likely be numerous problems, but regardless, it represents a glimmer of hope for breaking through the rigidity of the current system.
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