Cryptocurrencies Use-case: The Good and the Ugly
New cryptocurrency projects are springing up every day, the cryptocurrency projects count grew from double-digit to five-digit figures in less than seven years. This averages over a thousand new projects and an average of about three new cryptocurrency projects each day over the last seven years. That’s a whole lot for an emerging industry I must say. To an extent it represents rapid growth, on the other hand, it symbolizes the enthusiasm of the participants and promoters of this new concept.
Every (most) new cryptocurrency project presents a formal statement of their visions, problems, and the solution(s) they wish to offer to this problem in their whitepapers, a couple of other projects are a bit informal with this and give a crude presentation of their project goals and roadmaps. This usually is the first impression their original/initial investors get about the project and goes a long way to determine if they are impressed enough to offer their support and as well put their money and effort towards the growth of this project.
Formal or informal, these statements of goals and visions always create a use case for the tokens backing these projects. Use cases create utilities for these tokens and are the primary means of creating demands for the tokens created by the project, to an extent, owning a cryptocurrency token is like buying company shares, some tangible differences here anyway but most importantly, the value of these tokens are tied to the success of this project which in turns depends on the validity of the use case they project.
The idea behind a cryptocurrency is hence a vital point to consider not only for investors but also for the creators of the new project. How valid are your ideas? A couple of projects are too hasty and forget to answer this question satisfactorily themselves before presenting it to the target investors. A couple of others are well aware that these ideas are not satisfactory, but proceed to present them to the target investors with some enticing terms which hides the inferiority of these ideas and creates hunger for the project on the side of the investors. Investors in this case are ‘tricked’ into investing in this project only to run unfortunate losses later on. This Ugly part of cryptocurrency use-case creation makes cryptocurrency investment a very risky exercise.
On the good side, a cleverly crafted use-case, one which is a product of a calm and well-calculated masterpiece by the project team creates a valid and superior utility for the concerned project and presents to the investors frank possibilities that the project could create a clear roadmap which the team hopes to follow in pursuit of this goal. Investors usually run into fortunes and get rewarded for their belief and influence in the success of the project as it grows to make gains with the creation of demands for the tokens that the investors hold.
A couple of cryptocurrencies like Virtuals Protocol have five-digit Return on Investment (ROI), and many others have relatively given investors handy gains while a tangible number of cryptocurrency investors are running negative on their investments. While a project’s failure is not always due to an inferior or infeasible use case, it is noteworthy that this is the case most times.
For both developers and investors, considering certain aspects of a project’s use case before going ahead to work on developing them or investing in them respectively is hence an important step to take, especially when these projects are long-term projects and not some short-term ‘experiments’.
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The relevance of a project’s use case should be considered first. How the solutions offered by the project apply to the problem and how the targeted users might react to this solution are both important factors to consider. These two factors determine the relevance of the use-case proposed by a project and as well, the project itself. While the use case might be feasible, it might not be relevant, this defeats the goal. For the developer(s), it is always disappointing to spend so much time, effort, and energy developing a functional prototype that solves a problem but is not usable due to certain reasons that are not due to the project’s shortcomings. For investors, the feeling is similar, investing in a project with a good but irrelevant technology could also spell losses for an investor.
With the proliferation of cryptocurrency projects, it is hard to find a project with a unique use case, most times there exists a couple of projects working to create solutions to the same problem or to invade a certain mainstream sector. The superiority of any of these projects depends on how different they are and hence how they stand out from other ‘competitors’. This is also an important factor to be considered by developers hoping to create something new and investors hoping to invest in the future.
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A plan B? The availability of a contingency plan by developers in case their project fails to perform as expected could be vital. A way to re-route the project, change the direction of the whole effort, and salvage the failing project is important, especially for a highly speculative project. Investors who also make a contingency plan for their investment also get the ground running faster in case the project fails to live up to their expectations.
Who are you? An investor looking out for new projects to invest in or a crafty looking to create a new cryptocurrency start-up? Whichever one, taking a good look at what the project holds (for an investor) and what you hope to offer with your project (for a developer) is very important. For investors, this improves your chances of profiting from your investments, for a developer, creating a successful cryptocurrency project largely depends on the utility of your project
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