Before anyone understands what a protocol actually does, the crowd has already decided what it is .

I watched this happen in real time with @GeniusOfficial . Not the project — the *perception* of the project. Within days of visibility, the narrative was already setting. People were not researching. They were confirming. The discovery phase, which should take weeks of honest friction, collapsed into 48 hours of recycled takes and social proof loops.

This is the part that still unsettles me about markets. Attention is not neutral. It is generative. Once enough people look at the same thing the same way, that shared gaze starts producing its own reality. $GENIUS becomes whatever the loudest, earliest framers say it is — and the original idea underneath gets buried under the weight of what people *need* it to be.

I remember sitting with a position once, watching the narrative drift so far from the whitepaper I couldn't find the project I'd entered.

What I still don't know is whether the underlying idea survives this compression phase, or whether perception always wins.

The uncomfortable truth is that in crypto, the map becomes the territory fast. By the time most people engage with what something actually does, they are already living inside a story someone else wrote about it.
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