Yes, there’s still a lot to be done. A project stays in the spotlight as long as there is volume, especially around launch.
But projects with real developers, smaller teams & communitys eventually reach a point where shipping alone is no longer exciting enough for holders.
Volume flips. The project dips.
One solution from
@Pumpfun's side would be to highlight utility driven projects directly on the main app and website of
@Pumpfun.
The UI already has room for this. Opening it up would create an entirely new category of traders.
there's no better way to align project teams with their token holders than ensuring that they hold the token themselves. ideally, they lock tokens for a long time horizon
I'm not necessarily advocating for every single dev to do a 10% dev buy - I'm aware of the implications this has for every day traders in the lowcap trenches. But there are ways to ensure that the tokenomics are good
creator fees are a good onboarding tool and can help with initial funding, but they're usually insufficient at incentivizing projects to continuously dedicate resources towards making the token succeed long-term. there need to be additional incentives in place
I will probably write some more stuff about how we think about balancing incentives, and what our plans are for improving them, so this is more clear
there's a lot of work to be done to improve how projects launch, but that's what we signed up for!