I'm uncertain as to which early adopters you speak, majority I'm familiar with are effusive with praise about more people in the space and more projects and attempts at private blockchains. If you could have an immutable private ledger with the resilience of the bitcoin public ledger, you might have something "valuable" [imo, Bitcoin is always* going to be the crypto backbone, similar to a Level3].
The "value" of something provably unique/original is yet to be understood or quantified as is the network that affords such designation, despite price predictions/exchanges/etc. What is the "value" of standardized trade without middlemen pecking out a piece of every iota of data or value [via taxes/fees/services] over and over again ad infinitum?
I definitely don't know the answer, because I can't even define value in a satisfying manner, anymore. What is the value of the Internet? Or what is the value of HTML? What is the value of A blockchain? What is the value of A walmart blockchain? What value is redundancy or privacy? What is the value of a dollar? What is the value of a salesman?
Why?
Can you prove it?
How can you provide it?
My short answer for most of those is "depends on your ability" and how do you quantify that?
Doesn't it all come back to faith/trust? How much is trust or faith worth? How fragile is faith/trust?
How valuable is a social security number when everything tied to a ssn is now freely available to dark Web participants?
I have inform many customer as they flinch at a credit card application request for SSN, "listen lady, your **** is already out there, no one is capable of keeping you safe, just stop being a sissy and vote for the next generation of identity management when it pops up, cuz this one seems to be fubar, get your discount and let's roll, money isn't real anyways but the appliances are"
[Visceral stream ended]
Tldr
Nothing is real, everything is temporary, especially value.
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*Addiction services
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