Two projects recognized by leading exchanges with completely opposite trends provide important insights

Case One: Selling pressure from early entrants
This project rose from a low point to 17 million, having been listed on a major DEX earlier, and only later gaining recognition from centralized exchanges. The key question is—what does a price decline mean when new tokens are issued? It means providing an excellent exit window for early holders. For the community, it’s about fulfilling promises; for the market, it’s just closing the books. In such cases, you shouldn’t chase high prices; instead, you should have a clear plan for taking profits. Because after the positive news is realized, the ones who often buy in are retail investors.

Case Two: The silent dark horse
In contrast, the logic of another project is completely different. Starting from 2 million, it only gained exchange recognition when it reached 4-5 million. The most critical point is—almost no one discusses this project, and the tokens are concentrated among holders at very low prices. When the exchange endorsement suddenly arrives, the market has not yet fully priced it in. This situation is worth paying attention to because the recognition has come, but the hype has not yet built up, leaving room for a price catch-up.

Core difference: one is after the positive news has been fully priced in, the other is when the positive news has just been discovered by the market. Which to choose depends on your judgment of whether the "news has already been hyped" or "the news has not yet been hyped."