Arbtirum can survive at a price of $ 1 because the team takes good care of it, ..
There is no connection between the value of the ARB coin and the operability of the A rbitrum network. Accordingly, even if the value of the coin drops to 10 cents, the Arbitrum network will continue to work smoothly. Accordingly, the price of the coin in the future will depend only on the work of the market maker.
The market makers are the developers, those behind the funding to that coin and the potential investors on the same project, this has to do with alot of money needed to maintain their stay on the market especially whenever the market run dip and there's this common fear of missing out, but as you've said, the market makers will determine the fate for the value the coin will maintain while the storm comes in and it may either rise or fall.
Only good projects and having that strong community which does have that continous support despite of the market condition are the ones who would be able to survive. We've seen lots of good projects had died and
wither away because of the market condition on which it ends up on being bad. Good projects stay and sustain and the bad ones or didnt really get that sufficient recognition had gone away.
This is why its really that hard to make out some assumption on choosing new projects or to those low ranks to climb up into the ladder and it would really be depending on you which one you would be choosing
because if we do really look around then there's really those hidden gems or does have huge potential basing up on their utility.
It is really just that hard to predict whether they would be able to give out on what they had promised because most projects which are really that having a good roadmap and whitepaper doesnt always
mean that those things would be materialized and been followed.