My question now is, since this bull run has been tagged with major speculations, how can a potential investor navigate his or her way through a long-term, meaningful and financially impactful projects as against those riding on just the hypes?
Firstly you are right, this bull run has been built on too many speculations the biggest being about the US election as Donald Trump showed the public that he is highly interested in Bitcoin.
And just like every speculation it is not all that very active, one thing that has helped me navigate the Crypto-currency world is not going by speculation, take for instance if the story of Kanye West were true and he actually rejected 2 million you promote fake tokens then you should understand that you owe yourself the responsibility to do your own research.