Crypto projects are best at creating narratives for different stages, not at building actual products. This has been the default industry methodology over the past few years. Many teams haven’t truly built paid relationships, retention relationships, or long-term trust. Instead, they just issue an asset first and hope that rising asset prices will somehow support their business. But assets aren’t businesses, valuations aren’t revenue, and secondary market liquidity isn’t product value. Having tokens, funding, user data, and TVL are all illusions of liquidity during easy-money phases—they ≠ a successful business model. Without subsidies, airdrops, PUA tactics, new funding rounds, or expectations of exchange listings, 90% of projects wouldn’t survive more than three months. Does the crypto space really need so many tokens? Let me give you an example—10 would be enough.