The "weather vane" effect of early on-chain players is undergoing subtle changes. In the past, this group was the trailblazer in discovering new tokens like Dogecoin, and their actions often indicated market direction. However, in the past two years, this phenomenon has reversed—many on-chain frontrunners have shifted from being leaders to tools for precisely harvesting retail investors. They no longer rely on genuine logic to guide their actions but instead exploit information asymmetry and discourse power to carry out rounds of profit-taking. This reflects that, as participation increases, the early advantage is becoming distorted.
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ImpermanentPhilosopher
· 7h ago
Early players are now just harvesting machines, the information gap is really incredible.
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TokenEconomist
· 7h ago
actually, this is just market maturation doing what it always does—information asymmetry collapses as participation scales. the OGs had moat, now they're just extracting rents before it evaporates entirely. classic rent-seeking behavior when your edge gets arbitraged away tbh
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MysteryBoxBuster
· 7h ago
Early advantages become distorted... Basically, the tactics of harvesting retail investors are becoming more and more skillful.
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PseudoIntellectual
· 7h ago
The early dividends are gone, and now they're just harvesting the leeks. This trick is really old and worn out.
The "weather vane" effect of early on-chain players is undergoing subtle changes. In the past, this group was the trailblazer in discovering new tokens like Dogecoin, and their actions often indicated market direction. However, in the past two years, this phenomenon has reversed—many on-chain frontrunners have shifted from being leaders to tools for precisely harvesting retail investors. They no longer rely on genuine logic to guide their actions but instead exploit information asymmetry and discourse power to carry out rounds of profit-taking. This reflects that, as participation increases, the early advantage is becoming distorted.