You can charge recurring revenue; after all, nobody wants to work with obsolete data. (This is harder in the early days, not because of lack of buyer appetite, but because your update cadence probably isn’t good enough.)
There are two things I want to point out about this feedback loop. First is how much of the initial growth is driven by speculation. Because most tokens are programmed to be scarce, as interest in the protocol grows so does the price per token and thus the market cap of the network. Sometimes interest grows a lot faster than the supply of tokens... See more
From a revenue perspective, success is much less about an artist capitalizing on their existing audience size elsewhere, and more about an artist engaging consistently over a long period of time.
These meme “investors” are competitive, with Forbes having published a ranking of the community’s “top investors.” There are even in-depth guides to help usher in novice meme traders.