Why Product Growth Doesn’t Always Create Token Value

Why does a Web3 project grow while its token keeps going down? And why do most tokens fail even when the product actually works? 8Blocks designs, audits and stress-tests tokenomics for Web3, GameFi and DeFi projects, with a focus on building token economies that survive TGE and grow with the product. Sergei Novikov is the Product Lead at 8Blocks and in this conversation he breaks down one of the most misunderstood topics in all of crypto, the gap between product adoption and token adoptio, and what founders, investors and traders should actually be looking for before putting money into any token. Al Jazeera ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ He explains: ◼️ Why product adoption and token adoption are completely different things and why confusing them costs investors money ◼️ What the token product linkage metric is and why it is the single most important question to ask about any token ◼️ Why hundreds of white papers promise great utility on paper but deliver nothing after the TGE ◼️ Why the TGE is just one day and why teams that only plan for launch day almost always fail ◼️ Why token unlocks are not inherently bad and what the real question is that teams need to answer about them ◼️ The four red flags every investor should check before buying into any new token ◼️ Why a project having a secure smart contract but a broken economic model can still collapse ◼️ Why 95% of tokens that ever launched were not needed at all and what that means for founders ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [00:00] Intro [01:00] What Does 8Blocks Actually Do? [02:00] Why Product Growth Does Not Mean Token Growth [03:00] What Is The Missing Link Between Product And Token? [04:00] What Is Token Product Linkage? [05:00] White Paper Utility vs Real Utility [06:00] Does Your Project Actually Need A Token? [07:00] The Biggest Mistake Teams Make Before TGE [08:00] How To Think About Unlocks And Vesting Pressure [10:00] Four Red Flags To Check Before Buying Any Token [12:00] Will Tokenomics Audits Become Standard? [14:00] Why 95% Of Tokens Were Never Needed ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Follow Sergei Novikov: LinkedIn — https://din.com/in/sergeinovikov 8Blocks — https://8blocks.io Follow 8Blocks: Website — https://8blocks.io X — https://x.com/8blocksio ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ BeInCrypto: 🔗 More from BeInCrypto: 👉 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@Beincrypto 👉 BeInCrypto: https://beincrypto.com 👉 X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/beincrypto 👉 Telegram: https://t.me/+U8DQNp4b8Gw3YmZi ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #8Blocks #Tokenomics #TokenEconomy #TokenAudit #Web3 #TGE #CryptoInvesting #TokenomicsAudit #Web3Investing #BeInCrypto