Crypto is in a secular, yet fragmented early bullish adoption phase. Its a true "industry" now. This is what people miss when they think of the entire market. Outsiders also just see it as one asset class which is likely where edge lies IMO. We can have a raging bull market in one category, like memes in '24 while another sector like DeFi or NFTs is in a bearish phase. On top of that, we already have had an 'infra to app' pendulum shift play out this year as new possibilites have been enabled by infra built in the 2022/2023 bear. All this to say, when myself & loom joined crypto in early '17/16 this wasn't the case. It was bullish or bearish as a broad market. That's it. There's always been edge in identifying new meta's early and participating, yet it feels like now more than ever this becomes major dispersion in token performance across different sectors. Personally, getting to understand the technical design elements of the space has helped me to zoom out and be curious...I'd say find what interests you and go deep, then you'll be ahead of the pack