Strip out the airdrop hunters, the liquidity miners, the bounty farmers. what's left? That's your real community size. and for most projects it's a lot smaller than the dashboard suggests.
That's the number worth obsessing over.
The problem most founders face in crypto,
they are so deep in the product they forget that nobody outside their team actually understands what they are building and suddenly a weaker project with good positioning is winning the attention YOU deserved.
There is a credibility gap emerging in Web3 between founders who showed their face and built in public and ones who stayed anonymous and expected the tech to do the talking.
Unpopular opinion, most people at ETHConf this week are networking with the same 500 people they already know on CT, the builder echo chamber is real and it is killing distribution π