It became clear to most that growing a genuine ecosystem is absolutely key for new chains to succeed. For too long, testnets were used for fake adoption metrics and reward unaligned communities. Your mission is to focus on projects that have a long-term vision for their ecosystem and communities such as @megaeth_labs and @fluentxyz. The next generation of blockchains understood that building great technologies is cool, but if your blocks are empty, it has no future. To solve this issue, developing an ecosystem of innovative apps that are built for users is absolutely crucial. If you have no interesting apps on your chain, you have: - No users - No fees and revenue - No adoption - No community - No future I guess this is pretty much a market consensus now, except for probably some remaining teams. In order to have great apps on your chain, developing an internal incubator/accelerator is one of the most efficient ways to help teams scale and market their product. The current two groups that I find overly supportive are @0xMegaMafia from @megaeth_labs and @BlendedBldrs (BBC) from @fluentxyz. Those groups are particularly important as they help teams with: - Brainstorming - Positioning / messaging / storytelling - Fundraising - MVP iteration - GTM - Distribution By leveraging them, apps have higher chances to exist and be positioned as part of an ecosystem. Yet, one point is lacking: Product Market Fit (PMF). A lot of apps and projects have hurt themselves on the PMF wall, one of the hardest outcome to achieve. Feedback is often disregarded by projects and large teams that have a specific agenda, which unfortunately impacts the potential one project could have on an ecosystem. Users are the ones that will help a project go beyond what the core team has been envisioning, find a PMF and they should not just be used for farming fake metrics and growth. I particularly like this approach after reading the posts from @blendino_ on Fluent and how they are going one step further on the user acquisition and feedback in order to truly iterate and improve the impact apps can have. Fluent has an approach towards the apps that are featured in the BBC group which is quite unique and I'd say interesting. They put 100% of their focus on a specific app at a time when it's time to collect feedback and improve the product. They will then feature another app once this is done. This allows to have genuine testing feedback on every app and not an ecosystem that launches 100 apps on day one without any clue of the market interest. Through this collection of data, Fluent, the BBC, and the app are able to assess the overall UI/UX of the app, general user feedback on the experience, bugs, and recommendations in a very open and optimized way, increasing by a ton the potential for the app to reach PMF. Combine this with Fluent's core architecture being built using WASM code which unites with EVM and soon the SVM into one seamless environment; allowing smart contracts written in Solidity, Rust, or Vyper to interoperate natively on-chain; and you increase once again your chances to get genuine innovative apps/PMF on your chain. So far the BBC released 2 apps, @PumpPals, a fantasy card app for @OnlyFans and NSFW models. The app is already teaming up with top agencies and models who will be part of the game. The vision is to go much beyond the CT bubble and break into mainstream consumer markets (compete with OnlyFans). @sproutfi_xyz a yield app that helps you earn personalized returns by automatically crafting and executing a strategy to your unique risk profile. Same objective, reach the masses and leave the CT bubble, think @Wealthfront using crypto yield. This new era of chains is clearly crucial for the ecosystem, where we finally have chains, foundations and projects that really care about the end user as well as fostering their ecosystem through feedback and help towards their builders. I'm personally quite bullish on this new way of operating inside of the blockchain ecosystem so I'll keep on sharing about the latest updates! Stay tuneeed 🥂