People keep asking where Fuel is heading next.
We've spent years building from first principles.
But growth doesn't come from performance alone. It comes from proof.
Here's how we plan to earn it 👇
Too many times, you end up facing builders that don't care enough to not just build but also grow the app
They often build average quality products and leave as soon as the incentive run out
They don't behave like business operators, but as contractors/devshops, which is why we always end up with extractive mechanics and half baked products.
The Super Sprint Competition lived up to its name
• Over $432.5M in volume
• Over 1M trades
• $50,000 USDC paid out to winners
Thank you for being part of the race and see you in the next one 🏎️
I’ve been saying this for years, but I think airdrops only made sense when they felt like unexpected loyalty rewards.
You used a product early, took some risk, gave feedback, helped the team improve things, and maybe at some point you got rewarded for it.
That was healthy imo.
Where it broke is when the reward became the product.
It’s like airlines: You don’t pick an airline only because of the loyalty program. You pick it because you need to fly, then you look at fares, routes, service, reliability, planes, etc.
The loyalty program comes after. It's like the cherry on the cake.
Crypto flipped this way too often.
Too many products tried to make the reward the reason people show up.
You end up creating fake interest, fake loyalty, and then predictable FUD once people dump and leave.
Hard to keep people around when they never came for the product in the first place.
Airdrops as we know them are over.
Giving tokens away to build a holder base has mostly created sellers. Across the largest airdrops, between 78% and 94% of recipient wallets had sold off most of their allocation by day 90.
People cite Hyperliquid and Jito as proof airdrops can work, but neither succeeded because of the airdrop. Hyperliquid had over $1B in revenue funding buybacks that soaked up the selling from recipients. Jito’s eligible cohort was small enough to avoid industrial farming.
Token economics are starting to require real protocol performance. MegaETH locked 53% of its supply behind performance targets. Pendle routes roughly 80% of revenue into buybacks for stakers.
Token distribution is moving from handouts to performance.
o2 liquidity just expanded its reach.
KyberSwap, the #1 DEX aggregator on EVM by volume, now sources liquidity from o2.
That puts our orderbook behind some of the best swap routes across EVM.
Spot trading, done right.
Everywhere. 🏎️