Accounts like Zano_Project, Klever_io, Raptoreum, Project Veil and more. Some top influencers also started following me.
For someone who was just starting his Crypto news reporting career, this meant a lot to me.
I remember how I used to check my notifications and get excited whenever I saw that a blockchain project had followed me.
It wasn't even about the number of followers I had.
At that time, I didn't have a huge audience.
I was just trying to find my way around Crypto Twitter and figure out what kind of content I could consistently create.
My strategy was simple.
Whenever a blockchain project made a post, I would read it, understand what they were saying and then give my own narration or version of the post.
Sometimes I would explain it in a simpler way.
Sometimes I would add my own opinion.
Sometimes I would just tell people what I understood from the announcement.
I wasn't doing anything complicated.
But I was paying attention to what people were posting.
And whenever one of those projects followed me, I saw it as a green light.
I felt like, "Okay, they actually noticed what I'm doing."
That was one of my favorite notifications.
A blockchain project following me.
I would see it and feel like I was doing something right.
It gave me some kind of confidence.
Because when you are starting something new, you don't always know if what you are doing makes sense.
You can spend hours writing something and nobody reacts to it.
You can post something you think is very good and it gets almost no engagement.
So when the actual project you are talking about notices you and follows you, it feels different.
For me, it was validation.
It made me believe that my writing was beginning to have value.
And that was where I started seeing something I had probably overlooked for a long time.
My words could actually do something.
If I could take a post from a blockchain project, understand it and explain it in my own way well enough for the project to notice me, then maybe I had found something.
I started asking myself questions.
What if I become better at this?
What if I learn how to tell stories around these things?
What if instead of just reporting what happened, I could make people actually care about what happened?
That was when I started becoming more interested in storytelling.
I think I just found my niche.
Storytelling and narrative blogging.
It sounded simple, but it changed the way I looked at content creation.
I had always wanted to break down Crypto and Web3 complexities.
The industry can be very boring sometimes.
Let's be honest.
You see people talking about protocols, liquidity, wallets, tokenomics, Layer 1s, Layer 2s, bridges, smart contracts, airdrops and all sorts of things.
For someone who is not already inside the industry, it can be very confusing.
Even when the information is useful, the way it is presented can make people lose interest.
And I started thinking that maybe storytelling was the best way to solve this.
Instead of just saying, "This project launched this."
I could explain what happened through a story.
Instead of throwing technical terms at people, I could use my own experience to explain what I learned.
Instead of pretending to know everything, I could document what I was actually experiencing.
That became more interesting to me.
So I started writing good personal experience stories.
Stories about things that happened to me.
Things I learned.
Mistakes I made.
Things I didn't understand at first.
Things I discovered while navigating Crypto and Web3.
And I realized that my own experiences could become content.
I didn't need to always wait for something big to happen in the industry before I had something to write about.
My life inside the industry was already giving me stories.
Every mistake was a story.
Every lesson was a story.
Every opportunity was a story.
Every person I met was potentially a story.
Every time I got confused about something and eventually understood it, there was something I could document.
That was a big shift for me.
Before then, I was mostly thinking like a news reporter.
Something happens.
I report it.
A project makes an announcement.
I narrate it.
Something trends.
I talk about it.
But storytelling made me start thinking differently.
I started thinking about the person reading my post.
Would they understand this?
Would they feel something?
Would they see themselves in the story?
Would someone who knows nothing about Web3 be able to follow what I'm saying?
That became important to me.
I didn't want to write just because I wanted to post something.
I wanted my writing to have some kind of experience attached to it.
And personal stories gave me that opportunity.
I narrate it.
Something trends.
I talk about it.
But storytelling made me start thinking differently.
I started thinking about the person reading my post.
Would they understand this?
Would they feel something?
Would they see themselves in the story?
Would someone who knows nothing about Web3 be able to follow what I'm saying?
That became important to me.
I didn't want to write just because I wanted to post something.
I wanted my writing to have some kind of experience attached to it.
And personal stories gave me that opportunity.
I could talk about the things I got wrong.
I could talk about the things I believed before and no longer believe.
I could talk about opportunities I almost missed.
I could talk about people who influenced me.
I could talk about my journey.
I could talk about the times I was completely clueless.
And I think people connect with that more than someone constantly trying to look perfect online.
Because the truth is, nobody starts as an expert.
I was learning too.
I was trying to understand the industry while also trying to report about it.
And sometimes the best way to understand something is to explain it through your own experience.
That became my approach.
Documenting my personal experiences.
If I learned something, I wrote about it.
If I made a mistake, I could turn it into a lesson.
If something happened to me in Crypto, I could tell the story.
And if that story could help someone avoid making the same mistake or understand something they previously found confusing, then the writing had done its job.
That was when writing started becoming more than just writing to me.
It became a way of documenting my journey.
It became a way of making sense of my own experiences.
And at the same time, it became a way to explain Web3 to other people without making everything sound like a technical manual.
Looking back, those notifications from those blockchain projects meant more to me than I realized at the time.
A simple follow could easily look insignificant to someone else.
But to me, it was confirmation that somebody was paying attention.
It gave me the confidence to keep writing.
It made me believe that maybe I really had something in my words.
And that belief pushed me further.
I started taking storytelling more seriously.
I started paying more attention to how I explained things.
I started documenting more of my experiences.
Because I realized something:
I didn't have to be the biggest Crypto account on X.
I didn't have to know everything.
I didn't have to pretend to be an expert.
I just needed to tell my story in a way that people could understand and relate to.
And maybe that was my advantage.
I was experiencing Web3 like everyone else.
I was learning.
I was making mistakes.
I was discovering new things.
I was getting excited.
I was getting disappointed.
I was trying different things.
So why not document it?
That became the direction I wanted to take.
Not just Crypto news.
Not just reposting announcements.
But stories.
My experiences.
My lessons.
My journey.
And using those stories to make an industry that can sometimes feel complicated and boring a little easier to understand.
That was where I started seeing value in writing.
And honestly, that was when I felt like I had finally found my niche.
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