The price increases not from activity, but from the role of the token in the streams of value.

A common mistake is to directly link the technical utility of blockchain with the dynamics of its token price. The logic seems obvious: if the network is used, then the asset should grow. But the market operates more complexly than a linear relationship between usage and value.
The utility of blockchain reflects the demand for infrastructure: transactions, applications, interaction among participants. However, the token is a separate economic layer, and its price is determined not by the fact of usage, but by the role it plays in redistributing value within the system.