I've been building NECKWIRE, a project that follows William Herkelrath and keeps an eye on what's happening around the Algorand ecosystem.

The idea is to make it easier to keep up with the CEO's public commentary and relevant ecosystem developments without constantly hunting across different sources.

Check it out: https://neckelrath.pages.dev/neckwire

Still a work in progress, but that's the direction I'm taking it. Curious what the Algorand community thinks what would you want to see tracked, and what sources should be added?

Bullish from the neck up.

https://www.algoroll.com/quantum-nft-farm/

I hope this feels a good topic and title for the forum.

The greatest networks and systems may not be dependent on the people they employ, perhaps with exception to the creators and founders that set their plans in motion.

More the greatest systems are reliant mainly on the underlying systems network strength and Usage.

Usage = marketing

I can’t think of any company or system or product that truly became great, that wasn’t driven by the Usage of the underlying product

Not saying either way who or what this will best suit and just an observation here, but if a lot of recent posts are true, then the actual usage of Algorand appears to be increasing.

When picturing Algorand I mainly picture the tech and Silvio perhaps.

Other chains in opinion, you tend to picture the people more than the tech.

Eventually is it fair to say that you should only picture the tech and teams will shift significantly and hopefully logically in line with the time horizon of the chain being almost self sufficient by itself

If Algorand is prioritising Usage and Build over general marketing campaigns that could (big if) be key if Usage ramps up significantly.

So is the best form of marketing = Usage ?