Grape Protocal: The 10x Grape Ape of Solana DAOs?

How you read that headline says a lot about your age. Grape Ape either immediately recalls a strain of marijuana that melts pain and anxiety … or you remember it as a kids’, Saturday-morning cartoon from the mid- to late-`70s. (Alas, I know it as both.)

Here, as 2022 approaches, there’s a third way to read it: Grape Protocol is poised to become a gorilla in the universe of Solana decentralized autonomous organizations — or DAOs (and, maybe, other networks as well, at some point).

Perhaps more important, Grape highlights a very different social-media future for all of us. And in that, big profits await.

The crypto world right now is (rightly) focused on NFTs, DeFi, metaverse plays, and the various ways to profit from the emergence and growth of networks such as Solana, Cardano, Polkadot, and others.

But lingering just off to the side are DAOs — a confusing, crypto sub-genre to lots of folks, based on my emails.

Lingering among the many DAOs is Grape Protocol, a still-small DAO that launched its tokens back in October, causing the Solana network to crash for most of a day because an overload of bots tried to ape into a promising project.

After peaking near $0.21 a week after its launch, Grape Protocol ($GRAPE) has tumbled to about…