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I've been thinking about Jihad's cast for the past few hours and agree the potential of community tokens remains largely untapped. From my experience building communities in and out of crypto, successful tokens support a spectrum of engagement that functions like concentric circles: - Outermost → Traders creating price action and liquidity - Middle layer → Holders providing stability and long-term trust - Inner layer → Evangelists amplifying the message and narrative - Core → Contributors building products that compound network value The most powerful communities transform these circles into a permeable ecosystem where members can move inward over time.
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The true value prop isn't the token itself - it's the alignment mechanism between individual contribution and collective reward. When a community token works, it creates a flywheel where: 1. Members contribute in their own unique way 2. This builds social capital for both individual and community 3. Social capital translates to financial capital (number go up) 4. Financial rewards reinforce continued contribution This is the magic that's missing from most token projects today.
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When this alignment breaks and members stop seeing the token as "theirs," we see a predictable cascade: 1. They stop creating content and value 2. Engagement drops significantly 3. They sell their position What's most interesting to me is that the social withdrawal happens silently, while the economic impact (selling) makes all the noise. By the time the price reflects the problem, the community damage is already done.
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So does every community member need to see the token as their "personal token"? Absolutely not - and that's a feature, not a bug. Healthy token communities need that diversity of roles I described earlier: The trader creating liquidity is just as necessary as the core contributor building products, hosting events, etc What matters is having a critical mass of members who DO see it as their personal token, creating gravity that pulls others deeper into the ecosystem over time.
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