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Unlike Bitcoin that created the cryptocurrency world with an unimaginable fan base, most altcoins have to do tons of work to earn all users' trust to flourish, especially for countless new projects. I believe each of you has been supporter to at least one cryptocurrency and know how that relationship works. There must be some appealing ways for crypto community to do to attract more fans. In your experience, what are the most important principles to build a strong community of supporters ? Please share your thoughts and/or methods. By the way, I am with FireDAO team, in charge of the global community. Please contact me if you have any question.

Why don't you look at the latest projects that managed to sustain or survive the drop after the hype is gone. I remember the likes of shiba that came late in the game. They took advantage of the resurgence of meme coins if I am not mistaken and were able to build decent followings somehow. Just don't send tokens to Vitalik or to whoever developed the chain for your token.

Thanks we would but isn't it a good idea to listen to what "supporters" think directly ?  Voices should be heard and we can never rely on any single channel of sources. As we are devoted to building a strong community for our  project, there is nothing too careful to be prepared. Please let me know your thoughts and we'd appreciate any valuable advice from all users/supporters.

Check what did arbitrum doing. They are really focusing on increasing their community through various means of marketing and promotions. Plus there are many projects that are building on their network just to ploy some hype. I think the secret here lies on the execution of the people working for the project and also the product you have to make your subs or community bigger.

How ?

You up for that will be my question for you so how do you get that, in the dev position don't just serve the needs of others it's quite mechanical. You can look through successful examples of top projects in the market to gauge for yourself what the team is doing, in terms of ideas, in terms of core, team,... not to mention the latter. You know, in this space I know there are a lot of devs who are spending money, time and knowledge to develop products that they are really determined to change something. And I personally love people's efforts to succeed, not just based on hype and fad.

Of course you have the choice to learn from every possible sources but would you rather listen to random people who haven't successfully raised a project? Many of us only know things in theory. What I'm trying to say is to get that information directly from the people who have been there and have done what you're trying to achieve.

With Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrency giants plus thousands of altcoins in the market is very difficult to stand out from these projects, There are also a lot of projects and tokens getting launched daily, especially in the bear market is also hard to get the support of the community. In my opinion, a different approach or project that solves a different problem would work, we know that bitcoin and Ethereum are both cryptocurrencies but they have different structures, bitcoin is a form of money that can be used for digital transactions while Ethereum is a different platform for decentralized application and even smart contracts.

If you could create a unique project that solves a problem it might work, because that is what the community is looking for, if the project doesn't have any world use it was basically a useless project, Of course, you might get lucky like what happened to meme token but since they don't have any use we are not sure if the community will stay just because of hype or popularity.

Start by creating something ground breaking and new before forming community. Communities form around teams that are building cutting edge tech and have actual working usecases for them. You can't have a strong community without balanced team and vision. Code that's visionary, mindblowing and setting a new standard. That's something people get behind easily. Also marketing right targets and communicating with the community and having a good pr team that signals your vision clearly.

Then there's the fact that there are just not enough people in this space for every medicore project.

First of all the proposal behind the project must be original, innovative and useful in order to bring organical support to your local community. If you are able to offer a product like this, I believe more than 50% of the way is already paved.

After that you have another factors, but the main one is marketing, as you need to promote it to reach the maximum number os crypto enthusiasts as possible, while also attracting speculators' attention and interest to give your project some boost, especially at the beginning, that is when you are trying to consolidate your token or coin inside crypto market.

A powerful marketing strategy is to be generous with your initial public. If you are confident your concept is going to make the difference, I'm sure you won't bother investing a decent sum of money on this stage of the process.

Well Bitcoin really solved most of the problems by the adopters especially businesses and even I don't know what else should I replace it with even now. I am not really one of the hardcore fans of Bitcoin and usually I am just like an average user of Bitcoin. For other fans, they surely know the loops around it and that's why they're really devoted into supporting Bitcoin all in all.

Maybe try to find what Bitcoin cannot solve and you might get a solid community of supporters? There are tons of shitcoins out there already and non-Bitcoin coins are quite notorious for being just crap so your project might need to excel more than what's expected.

Thanks for your comment. Your point of view is mainly from drawing speculators' attention and rewarding their "original" support, which is useful. Our project is more like a tool oriented DEFI product and hope you'll be interested. You can refer to this thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5441307.0 to find the white paper and more detailed info.

Transparency, Honesty, Marketing.

There are many more, but I believe these are 3 of the most important things that developers must have in order for their project to become successful. Developers being transparent to other people increases the trust of the investors towards the project. Being honest and answering investor's questions without hiding or lying anything will increase the chances of our project to be a successful one. Marketing of course is the most vital part of every project because you want your project to be heard worldwide, and now that most of the people are spending time on social media, promoting your project has never been that easy.

Of course, having these 3 isn't guarantee a success towards your project. You need even more than that. You know that building a project in crypto isn't an easy thing. Good luck.

I think especially nowadays team members of a project have a very hard time to gather a significant amount of supporters behind their project, because obviously nowadays we have like at least 20 new projects or so appearing each and every day. From those 20 of course at least 19 are useless shitcoins that are dead again within a few days but still those projects also take away attention and money from "real" projects.
A lot of projects are giving away free tokens via an airdrop where you have to follow the projects twitter and join the telegramm channel and stuff like that, but to be honest i am not convinced, that this is actually worth it.
There are hundreds of "professional" airdrop hunters out there from poor countries that are just farming every airdrop and then immediately sell it again once they get the tokens. In the end this does more harm to a project than good.

That's true. Building a community becomes extremely difficult nowadays although most of us spend so much time on social media. People that are active as airdrop hunters do not have any loyalty at all. If our project FireDAO  conducts airdrop one day, we should also think about this problem. By the way, our project is relentlessly in progress and maybe you want to know about us ? Please refer to this thread to find more info https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5441307.0 . Hope you'll be interested.

Getting community members is quite easy by holding contests with prizes or Airdops, of course there will be many people who become community members in a project. But indeed the most difficult thing is to maintain the continuity of the community as active users in the network. Maybe what you need to pay attention to is how effective and efficient your project network service is with the same project developed by other developers, how big the utility and ecosystem are, whether or not the market needs it, and who you partner with, and one more thing, what are the benefits that you will give to the community as a member of the community.
I think those things are a consideration for community members whether to stay or not because basically everyone needs the benefits of mutualism.

One of the recent cases that I have seen that epitomize success and opportunity is Shiba Inu.
I think you need to study like them, and really if you can afford to do it.
The fact that many hype projects these days have turned themselves into a laughing stock, I hope you know this too, don't say what you can't do.

Good question OP.

This is tough because there's so much to consider first. The basics like the team behind it, project development, and more. That's the first into building a community where people will gather, if they find an altcoin project good then it will be a natural increase in the fanbase.
Another important role of the team behind the project is their activity with their investors. Try to answer as many questions as possible and be polite to every answer. Even if they are repeated queries, a community manager should not get fed up and just answer them directly.
I have been in an altcoin project before with a lively Telegram group, most questions are relevant and they are answered quickly by the team. Sometimes it's the old investors that provide the answers if they already knew about it.

If an altcoin is something of value, with a limited supply and the developers have no control over it because they are the developers or because they have a large volume of all tokens with constant updating and healthy growth then you will see more people trying to develop that coin just like what happened with Bitcoin.
Unfortunately, most altcoins aim to make quick profits and make developers rich in a short time...

It takes time, not a matter of a week or two.

If I can chime here, projects become known if

- the projects is unique
- not going to pull a exit scam
- the developers and the people behind are known in the community or at least have a solid background
- good promotion and marketing

So it's very important for the projects to be really solid from ground up. And being unique and the prime mover in the market, maybe there is a big chance that they are going to succeed in the future.

An outstanding project or one that could have a significant impact in the future relies not only on a solid economic model and operational capabilities, but also on the persistence to accumulate substantial achievements. Our experience in building communities has taught us that a successful community cannot be established overnight. Instead, it requires the accumulation of time and content before it can be recognized. On the road to being discovered and acknowledged by more people, there will undoubtedly be numerous difficulties and challenges. We are grateful for the assistance and suggestions provided by everyone, and we will make good use of them as we continue to move forward.

Holding contests with prizes or airdrops can draw attentions but this could translate into community members. Most of them will just cash the prize and leave once they can. Your point of how to maintain the continuity of a community is absolutely true. Most projects face the same problem if their fans are not loyal as Bitcoin or ETH fans. Our team is devoted to building a solid community and trying every means to get more supporters. We will launch more promotion in this forum so please stay tuned. If you like, please refer to this thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5441307.0 to find more detailed info about us. Thanks.

Updates like daily to see whats is going on to the project. People wants to always get updated how was the project going or what has been done on that day. If not share roadmaps or having interaction within its fans at we want this kind of people that we see friendly and giving importance to their fans. Also not only about updates having memes and fun facts could be attracting new fans to the project. No matter what as long as the project is promising amd updating on daily basis then it is really good

Try doing a bounty campaign in the forum and for social media like Twitter, it creates a community of supporters that spreads the word.

Although some of them will eventually just sell the tokens that you will pay for them, some are going to stick around, especially if the project is indeed good. But if it's not good as the team is saying, you can watch the community crumble will even ruin the project's reputation.

I will try to answer this based on my experience. So, a couple of months ago, I joined a bounty program from one of the metaverse projects. I've seen this project gain some exposure through the bounty program, but it doesn't yet have a dedicated following, because, as we all know, most bounty hunters are only interested in making money. But the project did get some exposure. This project was already listed, but the price remained low until one day, when it unexpectedly rose and became one of the exchange's top gainers. Since then, people have been drawn to buy more, and more people have come to invest. But not for long, as the price has dropped once again. The project has a total supply of one billion tokens and has decided to conduct a fast burn program in just a few days (they have already burned 750 million tokens), with the goal of having only 100 million tokens as a total supply.

People accuse the developer of massively selling their own token and planning a rug pull during this bear phase, but fortunately, the developer is very transparent and open about everything related to his efforts to save the project, including listing on Pancake Swap and listing on another top-tier exchange. At the same time, they are still developing the working product. They only released their first product in February. When people have doubts, he will come to answer those accusations and engage with the community without imposing unnecessary bans on those who spread FUD, but he will try to direct the doubt. With this approach, people who are willing to buy large quantities (whales) gain trust and a sense of belonging to the project, and they become a loyal community. They share the same vision and mission because they want the project to succeed. The whales even made a group for shillers and initiated giving rewards to their top marketers. Until now, the price hasn't returned to the ICO price yet, but I just want to show how building a loyal community is actually possible. It needs really good communication and transparency between the community and developers.

It is true and highly relevant because Building a strong community of supporters for crypto projects requires a deliberate and consistent effort to create engagement, transparency, and trust. what this means is that a crypto project can build a strong and loyal following that can help propel the project forward from Transparency, Engagement and Incentives.

For now building a thriving Crypto community like Binance and Bitcoin can be said to be not something difficult but something that is easy to do. the first thing that needs to be built is the trust of the community itself to be able to attract more crypto enthusiasts. another thing that needs to be done is the existence of free and attractive prizes given to the fans. I think it will foster the enthusiasm of fans for the continuation of your community

do you know the price of bitcoin when it was first released? and compare the price with current or ATH. indeed bitcoin is the first and most popular crypto but that's not what I mean. what I mean is that bitcoin takes a very long time to reach a price and has as many enthusiasts as it is today, meaning that if a new altcoin wants to get price and popularity it can't be done in a short time. To achieve success requires patience and
intense marketing.

Each project has a variety of ways about how they build their own ecosystem, as an example from yourself, you are creating many threads over the Altcoin Discussion board here to spark some discussion. That is one thing that I observed here.

The surest thing to gain market shares among cryptocurrency users is to build something that solves some problem. If the baseline of your product has plenty of utility, marketing would be easier and If the project wants to gain some userbase, growing an ecosystem of builders, developers, and users would surely grow the communities. Having Developer Relations or any funding for projects that build within your system could help achieve those thing.

Probably the easiest way to attract a community towards your project if is some sort of hype that was centered around your project came to be. Now, this produces a group of users who would probably leave after that hype, but some may still choose to stay and that's your goal. But ofc, if everyone chooses to stay then all the better. Most people would stay if your project actually holds value now, or at least in the near future. A communicative team as well as public updates here and there would always stoke their thirst for news with regard to the project.

It's going to take time, but that's just how it goes. Especially if you don't play around the hype train and just choose to go with the flow, influx of people interested will be really slow.

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The greatest strengths of a project that will attract a large community are, among other things, initiatives. Initiatives before the project launch and after the project launch. Discussion of some successful retrotrope or testnet sometimes promotes the project better than custom advertising in all sorts of social networks and forums. If a project allocates a large allocation to initiatives and community, there will be a big hype and community around such projects.

I have read many posts and articles on when Bitcoin network will be built.
The community came because they were interested in the idea, so is ethereum, the most important thing is the project idea and how well the project can compete with other projects

I have some time to support community development so I find to build a strong community of supporters for crypto projects there will be many different ways, but you can refer to this:

1. Define your goals: Before you start building a community, define your goals. You need to know clearly what you want to gain from building the community and the values ​​you want to convey to the community.

2. Create quality content: Create valuable and useful content for your community. Please share information, articles, videos and images related to your project so that members can better understand your project.

3. Community Engagement: Interact with your community

To build a strong community of supporters for a crypto project there is no alternative to spreading the project on social media. Campaigns should be run on various social media. In this case bounty or airdrop can bring success very easily. As we can now see the news of Arbitrum's airdrop in almost all social media. As a result, their supporters are increasing day by day.

Indeed. Actually our FireDAO was launched on Arbitrum mainnet and we are among the top promising projects which can be found here https://twitter.com/arb_insider_TIG/status/1635263162051330050 . Please keep an eye on our update and you'll be our initiative.


Agreed. We are planning some big events on many social media including Bitcoin Forum. Initiatives are vitally important for us to build a solid and sustainable community. We encourage you to know more about us and you'll receive a lot of benefits.


You are correct and we are considering this. The hype train is such a stimulus for most users and we will release one at the right time in the near future. Please stay tuned and we'll try our best to reward the participants huge.



Thank you for noticing us doing efforts on sparking some discussion in this section. Our product combines DAO and DeFi to make all utility more efficiently and effectively, which we believe will bring a large base of fans. Please continue to keep an eye on us and there will be many more for us to provide.

Bitcoin has become a very popular cryptocurrency ans easy to compromise to because the sense of security and true decentralization it gives off to their users.
For example, one of reasons I don't trust altcoins (specially the those launched recently) it is because the developers or those in charge of the treasury have more power over the supply than people realize.

Another example of success is Shiba Inu, part of the success of that coin comes from the fact that (allegedly) most of its liquidity does not come from a single person, but rather one of the main developers who locked the liquidity in Uniswap and then disposed of the private key of his wallet. Making it harder for anyone to rug pull...

The amount of supporters inversely proportional to the probability of a rugpull happening.

Of course, I am also leaving out the fact of the economical yield of the investment, though. But the safety of the asset itself comes first, before thinking about future profit.

You know that Bitcoin has that amount of supporters because it's the first and the most worthy one out of all the crypto, right? That's how I see it, and it is definitely like gold but digital, and that's just appealing to a lot of people, probably, like me. 

It's impossible to replicate how BTC supporters are, but it's about features and possibly how people will earn. I think those are the things that could have an extensive supporter base.

aside from all those social media campaigns, the dev team themselves should seriously develop their project into something valuable. remember, it is easy to sell a project if you have something to offer. if they see a promising project with actual progress, you can easily promote such project. but if you have nothing to show, how can you sell it? you can talk but there's limitation of how long you can sell it with just pure talk.

Of course the most important thing is honesty, if a new project has lost the trust of the community it will be very difficult to get it back. whatever happens with the project the team must be honest and open to the community, don't create fake news just to attract investors and make the project look good. what often happens is that many new projects manipulate token sale proceeds to attract investors. this is a bad strategy because it can cause the community to lose confidence in the project.

Of course. Honesty is one of the most important qualities that many people will ignore. Faking news to make projects look good to attract investors is like committing suicide. Even if investors or users are favoring a new project first, sooner or later they will know the fabricated stories behind and choose to leave. As long as project owner and the dev team are open to the community and make genuine communication with investors, solving problems will become much easier. Building a community is not instant but a continuous process of building long term relationship with people. Don't rush.

Well if it something that people really wanted to know, I believe transparency is a more appropriate word for that. Businesses have their own dirty secrets and even the reputated ones surely has something behind the scenes that they would not want people to know. Let's say business logic when it comes to a software companies.

Even the those seemingly legitimated ones get raided especially those gambling businesses here in my country, and yeah it happens. Though I know this is all about crypto in general, the point still stands.

Transparency is the focal point of blockchain technology but it can not be done overnight. A lot of us still criticize the operation of many centralized exchanges, why ? Because this is against the decentralization and transparency spirit of blockchain and users feel unsafe. I am positive that many more projects are going to be more transparent as this is what makes this industry unique and attractive. It just takes some time but for sure it will come.

Building a strong community of supporters for crypto projects takes time and effort, but it is essential for the success of the project .  Regular and transparent communication is crucial for building a strong community. Keep the community informed about the progress of the project, upcoming updates, and any issues or challenges that the project is facing. Engage with the community regularly by organizing events, and interacting with them on social media. Educate the community about the project and the technology behind it .Create a compelling logo, website, and social media presence that show the project  vision and values .

Building a solid community is easy, easy, difficult. The most important trust, we can attract and build community by giving them gifts for example. But now there are many people who just want the prize without making a big contribution to the project, that is the work where the project must survive in the midst of such a process. Providing a clear roadmap is also one of the keys to the success of a project. And also always provide updated developments so that investors see that the project is a project that is managed seriously and by professional people. The peak is when the project has gained trust, it will not be difficult to attract many investors.

As you said, although there are many new altcoins that have been rising so far, one of the problems is common in their community. We may see that Bitcoin may have a bigger community, exactly, moreover this forum is also. But if it is for a new project, it will exactly be more difficult to build the community, because the new community needs more trust and reputation in developing the project and community forum.  And this is different between Bitcoin and altcoins. That is why it will also need a hard thing to do right now. I remember also how Satoshi and the team first built the community and this forum needs several times to grow up and all being accepted by the community will also lead to the new project. 

Campaigns and other form of advertisments; most often social mdeia platforms. This is for the project to be known by more people both non-crypto and crypto investors. If you'd solely depend with crypto-investors, the possible growth would be limited into such population. Unlike with bigger scope wherein including non-crypto investors will create a bigger margin for your project's demand. If the project itself has potential then it would be worth trying to introduce it to a larger population.Indeed, maintaining the popularity is a hard thing to do. Especially if you have long term vision while your investors are only for short term. Problem is we cannot control the demand from investors during the process. Demand will only be established once the project is out in the public and still showing promising potential.

Doing airdrop please and thousands of people will be regularly following your project. It's not something new if these days people become very loyal once they will be get incentivized. I meant let's take a look at so many project that already got hundreds thousands of followers in twitter.

These projects were offering incentives by used its test net. The fact that if this is very good to attract people to come in.

Indeed nowadays building a solid community is becoming more difficult. The first obstacle is how to earn users' trust as a new project. There are just too many new projects coming out every months and people are busy and tired of going through each of them. Even if times passes and the new project wins fans, how to maintain the popularity becomes a bigger obstacle, which is an ongoing problem to most new projects. I know we FireDAO have a long way to go but we are committed to providing users with a reliable project that brings benefits and excellent user experience. Please stay with us and there will more upcoming good to come. Thanks.

Airdrop for the masses, yes and that will certain get the attention of many crypto people because who doesn't want to receive airdrop? Even if they're just a dollar or $5, there will be a lot of people that would like to get it because it's free money. No matter how much it will be, there will be participants that want to take free money.

That's right and that has made a lot of people join their test nets because there's an incentive and those that were able to spend for their own gas fees, they're the ones who received more because they've shown support to the project.

No way. If it's not a solid one, then maybe yes but if we say solid community it means more loyal members. We need to do something or a kind of gimmick to attract people and let them stay in the group. Activity of the members is also important. I like the suggestion you gave there which is by giving a gift or a reward. Of course we won't give them too early because there might be abusers who are only after it. They need to show their genuineness first.

A roadmap will still be useless no matter how clear it is but if there is no actions taken by the team. Real developments are still important or the willingness of the team and not just only by showing some documents to lure people.

First thing that comes to mind when building a project is the community because the project ought to be centered around solving the problems of a particular community or group of communities. If that was done first then it will not be difficult to sell the project to that community and the community will be happy to embrace and adopt the project.

Sure many people attracted to the projects solely for the airdrop. But do they even know what they are promoting? Seems like they are just there for the airdrops and doesn't really care about the project itself, high chance that they will forget the projects once the airdrops are finished. It's a common thing where once the airdrops are finished, there is no discussion about the project from those "airdrop hunters", it has some negative.

That's indeed a concern. Many of airdrop hunters will simply walk away after the airdrops are finished and they have no attachment to any of the projects that the airdrops are designed for. To solve this problem is not easy unless you have built a consistent promotion network. Building a community has become more difficult nowadays but we are working on it and will succeed one day. No matter what.


Agreed. The timing of giveaways is extremely important. Too many people are simply looking after free gift while contributing nothing to the intended project. We believe loyal supporters need time to cultivate and there are nothing short of "takers". Speaking of roadmap, it is true if no concrete actions are taken. We are relentlessly working on polishing our project no matter how much time will be taken in terms of security and scalability. I am expecting to meet more fans here who interest and support us.

You need to prove everyone if your project are serious, if you want to prove it you can run a signature campaign and the reward need to be paid with top 10 cryptos. If you only use your own token as the reward, what's the difference between your project and other altcoins project?

Of course it's need to be a long term campaign because if you only run for a week or few weeks, not many people will realize your token and they're not consider you're trustworthy enough.

But airdrop only attract those who wants the money they'll be expecting when they sell their tokens received from the airdrop. Airdrop increase number of community members in the social media which makes it look like the project is quality.

Airdrop alone doesn't build a community but when you constantly engage the community, they get stronger, you can introduce daily tasks that'll keep the users that came for airdrop occupied with the project and could lead to them investing.

Overall I believe trust is the biggest way to build a community, when your investors are happy with how the project is been ran then they'll attract more investors as they help with the marketing without any cost but just because they believe in the project.

one of the most effective way is through giving airdrop by finishing some tasks and even retroactive, there's reason arbitrum could turns out to be massive successful mainly because they have retroactive airdrop in which has greatly increased the number of users in their blockchain and their community grows really fast overtime, even right now many are already used with their chain that it is still frequently used as an alternative to ethereum.
many would say that airdrop only gonna make the value of the coin hardly increase but the truth is, if done right, it will increase the fame of the coin in no time, that only if the project itself is good quality though, if it's some shit project doing the airdrops it just gonna get considered trash coin.

If the reward is paid with top 10 cryptos, what is the point of building trust and loyalty between the project and the potential users ? Anyone who joins the airdrop will be most likely to acclaim the reward and simply leave. There is no need for them to be attached the project that was intended to promote. There are various ways to prove to the public our commitment such as updating our developments, not necessarily attracting them by throwing other top altcoins' tokens. Well, a user's trust should be earned over time, by showing them all the developments and even the difficulties.