2026-01-16 09:38:03

In 2025, the beginning was indeed the peak of social media dividends—just a few clicks to post and you could earn airdrops. Those days of easy passive income are long gone. Recently, X protocol adjusted its traffic distribution rules, and many social mining platforms relying on APIs have been shut down, making an ecosystem reshuffle inevitable.

The market is undergoing an interesting shift. Retail investors are eager to chase after countless new small coins, but the real opportunities are often hidden in early projects with solid technical barriers. On-chain, there are indeed a lot of noisy projects flying around, but at the same time, many noteworthy primary market players are emerging. Projects that are genuinely working and have substantial technical accumulation have become scarce commodities. In this round of market, success depends on vision and understanding of fundamentals.

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ForeverBuyingDips

· 9h ago

The era of passive income is truly over; now success depends entirely on vision. --- Another batch of mining platforms is cooling off; the ecosystem needs to be reshuffled. --- Retail investors are still chasing trash coins, unaware that opportunities lie in the primary market. --- In simple terms, technical barriers are the key; noisy projects should be pushed aside. --- Projects that do real work are indeed scarce, but that also means opportunities are out there. --- The rules of X have changed, causing chaos; whoever survives this reshuffle wins. --- A thorough understanding of fundamentals is the right way to make money; otherwise, you're just a leek. --- Only the primary market that surfaces is worth paying attention to; the rest are just gambling.

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StableCoinKaren

· 9h ago

The get-rich-quick schemes are long gone, now when looking at projects you have to peel back the surface to see the technology, otherwise you're just a bagholder. --- Whenever the X protocol adjusts, a bunch of platforms get compromised, indicating that this reshuffle was long overdue. --- Genuine first-tier projects are indeed scarce, but they are worth digging into. The key is to have sharp discernment. --- Retail investors are still copying small coins, but I’ve already started researching fundamentals. I feel this is the right way. --- Noise projects are everywhere, which makes those with real strength stand out and become more valuable. No wonder big players are quietly laying low. --- Airdrop dividends are dead and gone; now it’s all about whether you can find the next breakout point.

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TokenSherpa

· 9h ago

ngl, historically speaking the API-dependent mining era was always destined to collapse... if you examine the voting power dynamics of governance tokens from 2023-24, you'd see the quorum requirements kept tightening. let me break this down—actually, the real opportunity *always* was in understanding tokenomics framework, not chasing noise. most retail still doesn't grasp this fundamentally.

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PortfolioAlert

· 9h ago

Lying down to earn money is a thing of the past. This time, it really depends on your vision. Those small platforms relying on API scraping are dying very quickly, but it also pushes truly technical projects to surface. Honestly, it's just the big waves washing away the sand. Retail investors are still chasing small coins. I’ve taken a closer look at the fundamentals of a few first-tier projects. It’s rare that this wave of ecosystem reshuffling feels a bit refreshing. I just worry that some people will suffer heavy losses and then blame the market’s cruelty, haha. X’s traffic adjustment this time is like pulling the rug out from under, quite ruthless. Now, it’s really a contest of whether you can find projects with solid core technology; there’s too much noise. This round of market really tests your vision. Chasing trends blindly makes you a leek (a rookie investor). I’ve said it before, projects without technological barriers will die sooner or later. I just didn’t expect it to happen so quickly. The dream of lying down to earn money is shattered. Now, it’s time to do real homework. But on the other hand, the ones who truly make money are never the majority.

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