One problem is there are cool projects, and they have tokens, yet I have no desire to own the token, because I don't think it will go up.

What other than profit makes you want to own a coin (besides higher)?

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I think $anon and $veil gating are interesting experiments

Studying commitments right now as another use case

Probably if it’s a friend’s project, or there’s utility that is valuable independent of price. I think token gated utility hasn’t found much pmf yet but probably there are some use cases out there that make sense