researching onchain | writing tomu.xyz founded overgie.com mintgate.io | nf.td/tomu

make a product people want then worry about a token

Many people wouldn't use most crypto protocols if there wasn't an airdrop attached to it. 

The number of crypto winners shrinks to 3-10 projects (MM, Uniswap, ENS ... what else?) if you use this as a benchmark.

I still feel this way, but the path is much more difficult. 

Worth it, maybe, but difficult.

Founder, designer, & product guy at /basepaint and /eigenlayer

*feel this way = my preference is what OP describes

When you have the opportunity to give out an incentive, you should really use it to try to build something sustainable with that incentive and think hard about the edge cases where it doesn't become sustainable or sticky for users 

Otherwise, you're just giving out incentives for nothing but a quick hype cycle bc people follow incentives unless there's a product that serves a need or desire

“Trust takes years to build, seconds to break, and forever to repair” 
That George MacDonald quote has stuck with me ever since I heard it early in my life.

Related imo, and underrated for builders:

Related imo, and underrated for builders: https://warpcast.com/adam-/0x3d4788f5

Related: https://warpcast.com/garrett/0x03a4d1c5

farcaster engineering liquidity • prev manifold.xyz, twilio.com

Agreed but imo it's also a smaller subset of products than most of CT would like to admit.

A token is a good gtm strategy for some products.

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