Being in crypto I have created my own signals to differentiate signal from noise. One of the most exciting things are the sheer activity in Ethereum ecosystem.

Being in crypto I have created my own signals to differentiate signal from noise. One of the most exciting things are the sheer activity in Ethereum ecosystem. I use Gitcoin [1] (which is a crypto based bounty app built on Ethereum itself) where I look at the kind of issues for which projects are issuing bounties. I presume that if you are issuing a bounty on an issue then that is a demonstrated preference (rather than mere stated preference) about what you are doing. Then I use AngelList's [2] job search, if a project is hiring (and also for what) it indicates and demonstrates their claim backed by action. Like from this I learned about FOAM [3] trying to build a secure GPS (which is basically a cryptographic signing wireless beacon which would sign your request, thereby demonstrating that you were at a certain physical location) by hiring an electronics engineer. The only problem with these signals is that if they become too popular then people might start faking it, though the gitcoin one is hard to fake. If you are a developer, then you can always look at their codebase to see how much of real work is actually going into it. 1. https://gitcoin.co/explorer https://gitcoin.co/explorer 2. https://angel.co/ https://angel.co/ 3. https://foam.space/ https://foam.space/