But feel free to prove me wrong: how many of the thousands of different tokens that were created in the past years have actually solved a real problem?
Too many for me to sit here and name to be honest.
This is an honest question (and perhaps a stupid one) but could we consider Monero as one of this successful projects? I mean, it's original development started here before branching out to another forum but could it still be considered successful? On a side note I do believe that the term "successful project" is kind of an ambiguous one - we could delve in what it means to success in the crypto world - but for simplifying the discussion let's assume that it just means that it employed an actual economy around it (if you agree with my position that is).