There's a lesson here. Hype, organic or not, does not guarantee anything. A chain must be embraced consistently over time and grow in activity in order to succeed. It must provide clear purpose and execution that is easy, satisfying, and cheap to the user. Trading is not indicative of these tenets and never will be. Trading thrives off a pillar of benign incentives and mechanisms not tied to the actual protocol and creates an illusion of worth, or lack thereof, that many misunderstand. Litecoin's chain provides monetary freedom and flexibility that results in 100's of thousands of real transactions every day and always growing. 15 years and trillions of dollars later, Charlie asking anons on bitcointalk when to hit the 'ENTER' button for the start time of Litecoin's public existence still resonates as one of the most historically relevant stories of the entire space.(Litecoin)