2025-12-08 01:30:24

Here's something that stuck with me: a founder once said that copying everyone else's playbook gets you everyone else's results. Nothing more, nothing less.

The guy's 57, built something different in his space, and only now breaking his media silence. His take? Real separation comes from deliberate divergence.

It's that simple tension, right? Comfort of the proven path versus the risk of charting your own. Most projects in this space clone what works—same tokenomics, same roadmap beats, same community playbook. Safe, predictable, forgettable.

But the ones that actually move the needle? They zigged when the market zagged. Rewrote the rules instead of memorizing them.

Worth thinking about next time you see another project launching with the exact same strategy as the last fifty.

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SchrodingerWallet

· 15h ago

That's true, but how many projects nowadays are truly willing to diverge? Most still can't afford to take this risk.

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MevShadowranger

· 12-10 06:59

That's right, copying other people's things is doomed to mediocrity, which is especially obvious in the currency circle There are so many projects that follow the trend, and tokenomics are all carved out of a mold, which is really boring

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AirdropHunterXM

· 12-08 02:00

Copying someone else's approach is copying their results—this really hits the mark. After seeing so many projects, most of them really feel like copy-paste jobs; the tokenomics, roadmap, and community management all follow the same template... it's so boring. What about the projects that really take off? They're always the ones that go west when everyone else goes east. Just looking at whether the team dares to step out of their comfort zone is almost enough to judge how things will turn out.

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MEVHunter

· 12-08 02:00

ngl every project copy-pasting the same tokenomics model is basically just painting a bullseye on their own back. divergence isn't even optional anymore, it's survival.

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BearMarketHustler

· 12-08 01:59

After looking at so many projects, I'm really tired of seeing the same copy-paste everywhere. To put it bluntly, differentiation means daring to go against the grain, but most people just don't have the guts for it.

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BugBountyHunter

· 12-08 01:58

That's right. After looking at so many projects, it's true that 95% just copy each other, and as a result, they end up going down together. The ones that truly survive are the ones that innovate and do something different.

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FancyResearchLab

· 12-08 01:54

Same old rhetoric... Sounds right, but how many projects that truly dared to diverge actually survived? Luban No.7 is under construction again.

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0xLuckbox

· 12-08 01:53

Blindly copying others' strategies is already overdone—it's just that simple. Look at how so many projects in this space all look the same; it's really boring.

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TokenomicsTrapper

· 12-08 01:51

lol yeah except actually if you read the contracts on half these "divergent" projects they're literally copy-pasting vesting schedules from 2021 playbooks... classic exit pump pattern dressed up as innovation

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