During the bear market phase best opportunity is to learn something new and study aspects of blockchain technology deeper.

What can you do during downtrend:

• Participate in testnet activities

• Set up nodes for new blockchains and build up your devops skills

• Analyse blockchain data via dune \ flipside and build up your data scientist skills

• Learn new programming language - from Solidity to Cadence and try to deploy your fist smart contract

• Participate in social activities

• Learn about cryptography in blockchain basics

Market has a cyclical nature - so after downtrend there will be uptrend and your skills could be helpful to get on the wave.

We are still early in crypto, so LFG!

My first test article - as a remainder to key metrics, what we can use to measure project potential and performance.

User Activity

1)TVL - Total Value Locked

2)Active users\wallets - users interacted with project smart contract (total and daily stats)

3)User average transaction value

Developer activity

1)Github\repo activity

2)Number of Integrations with other protocols

Community\Marketing\Core

1)Partnerships with other projects

2)Community quality and quantity

3)Quality of project and user-project team interaction