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Crypto comes in waves. And like surfing, it is possible to fully paddle Very early And remember completely.
Some of Crypto’s biggest events have caught their respective waves with accuracy.
Markets change …
Uga Labs rolled bored monkeys in April 2021, as Bitcoin and Ether went to their first major peaks. He Bull Bazaar Chakra.
Recently, pump.fun did it when it was deployed in January 2024 – such as Bitcoin ETF was twice the price of Sol in two months.
Both companies are now a case study in capturing and mashing the attention of mass-market crypto consumers, even if it is difficult to say how many Individuals They were directly associated with both.
There are only about 5,500 addresses ownership A bored app is NFT, and less than 12,000 Conducted Cheap mutant apes. Apecoin, tokens meant to tie the room together, many more wallets – currently more than 182,000 countAnd it does not include an untold number of exchange accounts that have APE.
Pump.fun active Daily The address count is almost doubled, between 260,000 and about 500,000 trading addresses, now, copy Blockwork research dataHowever, again, it is unlikely that individual users map one-to-one with active addresses, so the correct number is likely to be reduced.
In any case, it is about the maximum size of the playground, on which any consumer Crypto app is to compete, fielding about half a million active address per day. It is except for traditional crypto exchanges, whose active users are spread over millions.
(Coinbase Reports About 10 million active users per month, which occurs on average in 30 days, is actually similar to the lower end of the pump.
Best case landscape: The playground grows between the waves of the crypto market. This will be good news for VCS and other investors, who have bet that there are enough blocks in the world and now more useful apps are running.
Till then, the time will be everything, and the ecosystem can be limited to the service of top communities of early cryptos. In such an environment, consumer apps that make it will attract Crypto’s attention Hot ball of money And keep it longer to make the stake holders comfortable (and, perhaps more preferably, profitable). Will they remain in the midst of cycles? Gone bored?
… but blockchains are forever
Blockchain and cryptocurrency can more. I have subsequently subjected you Some ideas on tokenomics In the context of the world, and well-designed role, hyper-utilized tokens can play in the future of humanity.
zoom out. By their nature, properly decentralized blockchain networks intend to be immortal, which lasts longer than bulls and bears markets.
Nothing is eternal, maybe, but it can still be a goal.
The blockchain will remain online as long as there are people interested in running machines that serve as validation of nodes on the network, and modern-day blockchain location is designed to encourage those who continue to do so with valuable tokens.
It may be that the current story of consumer apps on the infrastructure bends, remembering the forest for trees, especially when it comes to gaming.
Potential gaming application
Stop murders There is a consumer movement that expects the studios and publishers to kill the game with their back catalogs, most of which are only online-online. The game is regularly made unavailable for good when the company decides that the overhead cost of the relevant server is not worth, not worth squeezing.
Blockchain fixes it. While blockchain Self It is not suitable at all to host the online game in its entirety, a future can be where gaming communities bands pay the band together to operate the server on their own through token awards in the same way as atherium or bitcoin verifications are maintained by token emissions.
Of course, it is a matter of debate whether it is possible in behavior, especially when working with a minor userbase. But in a world where Crypto is still a universe of Ala apps, which is mostly popular with relatively small active communities, there are some other uses that are understood with long-term long-term work.
Perhaps Killer Consumer Crypto app is already here – they do not know yet.
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