Scrolling Through Crypto Twitter, But No More Profit Opportunities
The article "Scrolling Through Crypto Twitter, But No More Profit Effect" discusses the transition into the "Post-Crypto Twitter (CT)" era, where CT—as a mechanism for market discovery and capital allocation—is losing its ability to repeatedly generate significant market-wide events.
CT previously functioned by compressing three key market functions into one interface: narrative discovery (creating shared focus and converting attention into common knowledge), trust routing (enabling informal reputation-based capital allocation), and reflexivity (where narratives drive prices, which in turn validate and amplify narratives). This allowed a "monoculture" to form around simple, widely understood "toys" or narratives that coordinated the entire ecosystem.
However, the Post-CT era has emerged due to several failures: "toys" are industrialized and exploited faster, reducing inefficiency windows and concentrating profits; value extraction overwhelms value creation, leading to widespread cynicism; and attention has fragmented across niches, weakening shared context and synchronized liquidity flows.
CT is not dead but has evolved from an engine driving market-wide coordination to an interface layer. Real capital allocation now occurs more in high-trust, private "subgraphs" (e.g., closed groups), while CT serves as a surface for signals and narratives. The author argues that the era of CT reliably coordinating the entire market around a single meta-narrative and creating broad, nonlinear returns is over, though the industry continues with shifted dynamics.
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