Recently I’ve been studying DeFi, and I noticed my order of researching projects has changed.

Before, when I looked into a project, my first thing to check was:

How much money this protocol is making right now?

Now I prefer to ask first:

In the next three years, why will it still be able to keep growing?

To me, a project truly worth following long-term needs to meet at least three conditions:

✅ There is real demand—not just a short-term hype.

✅ Revenue can keep growing, not just spike once.

✅ The token can genuinely capture the value created by the protocol.

Revenue determines today’s value,

and growth determines the upside in the future.

I’m increasingly convinced that:

Researching a project is essentially about studying how much value it can still create in the future—not how much money it makes today.

DeFi
Value × Growth = Long-term Investment Opportunity

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