I’ll be honest — I came across a psychology term that quietly changed how I look at markets: attention depreciation.
I didn’t start thinking about this from charts or token metrics.
It started from something more human.
I noticed how quickly my brain loses interest when something goes quiet.
If a project posts every day — updates, partnerships, screenshots — it feels valuable. Active. Alive.
If it slows down, even for a bit, it somehow feels like it’s slipping.
Nothing actually changed. Just the noise level.
Psychology calls this attention depreciation. We unconsciously mark down whatever we stop seeing.
And that bias is dangerous when you’re looking at real-world infrastructure.
Because the stuff that actually matters rarely looks exciting while it’s being built.
Compliance doesn’t trend. Legal reviews don’t go viral. Integrations with brands or payment partners don’t produce dopamine.
It’s slow, procedural, sometimes boring work.
So when I think about something like @Vanarchain , I try to step away from the usual “announcement cycle” mindset.
If networks tied to entertainment and brands — like Virtua Metaverse or the VGN games network — are actually settling value or onboarding users, that growth probably won’t look loud.
It’ll look operational.
Contracts signed. Systems integrated. Finance teams testing flows.
None of that makes good social content.
So you get this weird split.
One track: slow, real adoption building quietly in the background. The other: market attention fading because there’s no constant spectacle.
Price often follows the second first.
I’ve seen enough systems fail to distrust hype and trust the boring signals more.
If something is meant to be real infrastructure, it probably shouldn’t feel exciting every week.
It should feel steady.
Who uses it? Probably operators, not speculators.
If it works, it becomes invisible plumbing.
If it needs constant noise to prove it’s alive, it probably wasn’t adoption to begin with.
