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