Keep in mind FEGex is about a year old now, and theres only 4% adoption globally for crypto! And DeFi encompasses a very small percentage of that. That is why DeFi has so much potential for growth over the next few years. Especially with so many regulations hitting centralized means of crypto, people will start to look for opportunities in DeFi. Whether that be due to low interest rates on a centralized exchange, or simply not wanting every move tracked.
CoinMarketCap and CoinGecko are still finalizing integration of FEGex- when this is finally done, all pairs on FEGex will be a lot more visible to the world. Furthermore, I know the FEG team wants to get FEG listed on centralized exchanges, and this will be massive for visibility.
As for marketing- its something that all SmartDeFi tokens and projects listed on FEGex should be putting efforts towards. FEG definitely does market pretty heavily, much of this is also a community effort. FEG is a fully community run project- no VCs, no paid moderators, everyone is a volunteer toward the efforts. True DeFi like many have never seen.
I'm out there pushing hard personally with the Smart Inu SINU project to help bring eyes to the ecosystem, and I know many others are as well. We just have to keep at it and keep making noise.
Asset Backing and Security are two things that would make crypto an entirely different landscape, and we've got them with SmartDeFi. Just gotta get louder and louder!
Finally I will say, this is a bear market. There may be plenty of eyes that have not become participants yet, and are simply watching and waiting for markets to turn up. SD was born in the bear, which is why you don't see it follow the greater markets often. But it also makes people lazy & the supporters are the number one source of marketing. Word of mouth goes a very long way. I didn't get into SHIB or FEG originally because they had good marketing. I just simply heard about it from a supporter and noticed they had a really good community.
