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GTM Strategy for Web3 Projects

Most Web3 launches fail before launch day — positioning nobody understands, aimed at everyone, timed to a market that moved on. This guide is the GTM playbook we run with clients.

  1. Positioning in a market of 10,000 protocols

    Narrative-market fit before product-market fit: how to find the one sentence that makes your project legible, and test it against real builders and users before you ship it.

  2. Sequencing your launch

    Testnet, points, token, mainnet — the order of operations matters more than the calendar. Common sequencing mistakes and what they cost.

  3. The launch-week playbook

    Coordinating KOLs, community, exchanges and ecosystem partners into one week of compounding attention — and what to have ready for when something breaks.

  4. Post-launch: surviving your own token

    The post-TGE attention cliff is a scheduling certainty. Retention programs, comms cadence and treasury-aware marketing for the six months after.

Deep dives from this guide

  • Narrative-market fit: a working definition
  • Points programs: incentive design that doesn't backfire
  • Launch timing and market cycles: what 2017–2026 taught us
  • Choosing your first ecosystem (and your second)
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