At the end of the article, readers often reflect that they are not clear about how to find project information, and even lose track of the project.
Today, I will briefly introduce some basic methods to track projects.
First, Twitter is definitely the most widespread and fastest way to find project information, as I have repeatedly emphasized. However, the information introduced on Twitter is generally fragmented, and if you want to find detailed information about the project, you will ultimately need to go to the project's official website.
However, many times when we read articles introducing various project information online, the Twitter and official website may not be listed, but the project token or the token's contract address may be briefly mentioned.
In this case, how can we further track the project's Twitter, official website, and other information from the token or the token's contract address?
A relatively useful tool is dexscreener (https://dexscreener.com/).
Open this website, in the "search" section in the top left corner, we enter the project token or the token's contract address, and the website will display the possible tokens and the DEXs where the token can be exchanged.
As shown in the following figure:
If we click "Search" and enter VIRTUAL, we will see the following screenshot:
As shown in the above figure, the token is on the BASE chain, and the DEX where the token can be exchanged is Uniswap deployed on the BASE chain, with the default frame selected as the trading pair for the token.
We click on the trading pair and see the following information:
The above figure shows the detailed information of the VIRTUAL token, with the background of BASE chain highlighted on the left side of the page, indicating that the token is on the BASE chain. The right side displays the project's official website and Twitter. Of course, if some projects do not have an official website and Twitter, this part of the information will be missing.
We scroll down the right side of the page and see the following screenshot:
On this page, the FDV in the top right corner shows the total circulating market value of the token, and the contract address of the token on the BASE chain is displayed in the bottom right corner.
The above method is applicable when we have already understood some fragmented information about the project and then follow the clues to find the other information about the project. Many times, if we want to understand a new project, we need to pay attention to some channels that can publish new information and report on the dynamics of the circle in a timely manner.
The three media I recommend here are TechFlow (@TechFlowPost), BlockBeats (@BlockBeatsAsia), and PANews (@PANewsCN).
These media often report on first-hand information in a timely manner. My understanding of many new ecosystems and new projects has come from these media.
Of course, there are also many KOLs and influencers on Twitter, and I won't recommend them one by one here. If you want to follow them, you can pay attention to the more active interactions in the comments of the tweets posted by the above three media. You can choose the KOLs and influencers that fit your values from these interactive ones.
Finally, when reading information, we need to think and reflect more.
The simplest thing is to follow the projects mentioned in the article, but if we only do that, it would be too superficial. We need to learn to look at the future, the trends, and the budding projects from the article.
For example, if the article mentions a project on the BASE chain, we can try to expand our thinking:
- Are there similar projects on other chains?
- Is it just this project that can use this model? Is it possible that other projects may also use a similar model?
- Does this project only involve one field? Does it have the potential to involve other technologies or other ecosystems?
Following this line of thought, we can speculate on projects that have not yet appeared or are still in the budding stage. With this kind of thinking as a foundation, once we encounter similar projects in the future, we may be among the first early investors to discover this type of project.
For the brief sharing last Saturday, many readers hope that I can share it again, and I will share it again on Saturday (January 11th) at 7:30 pm.
This time, to avoid digressing, please do not post questions in the comments, but ask them directly during the online exchange.
The link for the online exchange is as follows:
https://x.com/Dao_Views/status/1876794197891530776
