Camilla
@camillionaire
The harsh truth about crypto metrics: (1) active wallets can be faked (2) social metrics can be botted (3) TVL can be manufactured So we started using 'developer activity' as the true north - actual humans building actual things. But here's where it gets interesting: As AI gets better at coding, 'dev community' becomes just as gameable as every other crypto metric. One person with the right AI stack could look like an entire dev community. The signal becomes noise. We replaced easily faked metrics with harder to fake metrics just in time for those to become easily faked too'. Consider: - One dev with AI = 10 devs - AI agents can commit code - Github activity becomes meaningless - 'Builder community' gets murky So the question becomes: what's our truth metric for protocol evaluation, when AI can simulate an entire ecosystem of builders? Fundamental investors be damned -- we'll have to find new ways to measure real impact in ways that can't be simulated.
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Goksu Toprak
@gt
"what's our truth metric for protocol evaluation, when AI can simulate an entire ecosystem of builders?" Is there a genuinely interesting product built on top of the protocol? Although not a direct and deterministic answer for all — I think its a pretty sufficient question to make a judgement. I find protocols relying on side-quest metrics like the ones you mention tend to have no actual product signals to share to show usage.
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DeFi Beta Testa
@defi-beta-testa
Liquidity is the golden metric, it can’t be faked it can be rented, but not a lot for a lot of time
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NCOOKIΞ
@ncookie.eth
An actual product that works and provides value to people. That's the metric. As an aside, most AI-written software is still dogwater. As an aside aside, use PoolTogether.
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Kat
@katwolfie.eth
The current metrics aren’t real. I’m glad to see someone talking about this.
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axek
@axek
Good take. Followed you
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Elie
@elie
All of these are vanity metrics. Crypto is in a sad spot if counting commits is how we measure value.
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Konohime
@konohime.eth
Force NFT identification for AI 😊 (No idea how, but people are too focused on KYC rather than identifying robots imho)
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ツ
@nebula
You will give your eyes to the orb and you will be happy Just kidding, but anything that is proof of humanity is good, the race is on
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