The signal I watch in Fabric isn’t technical progress.
It’s behavioral change.
Not whether the protocol works.
Whether people start relying on it.
In systems like ROBO, the technology can be functional long before the ecosystem actually depends on it. Early activity often comes from curiosity, incentives, or experimentation.
Dependence looks different.
It appears when participants stop treating the system as optional and start building their processes around it.
So I pay attention to one thing: do operators and developers begin designing workflows that assume the network exists?
If they do, the protocol is becoming infrastructure.
If they don’t, it remains an interesting tool people can choose to ignore.
$ROBO becomes meaningful the moment coordination through the network feels easier than coordinating without it.
Experiments create activity.
Reliance creates systems.