Why do so many Web3 tokens crash and burn? The answer isn't some mystery—it's baked into how these things get made and sold to us.
The whole token creation playbook feels broken. Teams throw together tokenomics that look good on paper but fall apart in practice. Launch strategies? Often just hype cycles designed to pump bags for early insiders. And the narratives they feed us—"revolutionary utility," "game-changing ecosystem"—rarely match what actually gets built.
Honestly, way too many projects operate on vibes rather than vision. Slick marketing decks and influencer shoutouts replace actual product-market fit. Community engagement becomes an exit liquidity strategy.
The gap between what's promised and what's delivered keeps growing. Until teams start building with genuine purpose instead of chasing the next narrative trend, we'll keep seeing the same pattern: launch, pump, fade, repeat.
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RamenStacker
· 6h ago
To be honest, tokenomics is just something on paper; once it launches, it's full of pitfalls.
Early insiders grab the tokens, retail investors are left holding the bag—this cycle really needs to stop.
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DAOdreamer
· 6h ago
ngl this is exactly the current state of web3, way too many project teams just making stuff up
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Same old tricks again, tokenomics look amazing on paper, but crash and burn as soon as they launch
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Alright, I saw through this long ago, just no one dares to say it out loud
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Seriously, what can they do besides hype... where's the actual product?
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It's always like this: launch, pump, fade—drives me crazy
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That's why now I only get involved with projects that are actually doing real work
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Haha, the irony is that the faker the project, the faster they raise funds
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The problem isn't with the tokenomics, it's that no one actually cares about real delivery
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Wait... are the projects promoted by those big influencers also following this logic?
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Calling community engagement an exit strategy—that's just spot on
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SandwichVictim
· 6h ago
Haven't we seen this trick plenty of times before? Looks good on paper but falls short in reality—classic "storytelling to sell tokens" model.
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GasFeeCrier
· 6h ago
To put it plainly, this trick is already played out: launch, pump, rug, repeat—just the same few cycles over and over.
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TokenomicsTrapper
· 6h ago
nah this is just textbook greater fool theory with extra steps... actually if you read the contract, vesting unlocks are already scheduled to dump next quarter lmao
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SchrodingerWallet
· 6h ago
It's the same old trick again. The whitepaper is all flashy, but after a week of launch, they pump and dump the price, and those who made a killing early have already cashed out.
This comment really hits the nail on the head. Too many projects are just PPT dream machines.
No matter how fancy the tokenomics are, if there's no real user demand, it's all for nothing... I've seen through it.
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PositionPhobia
· 6h ago
Same old rhetoric, but it really hits the nail on the head... Someone should have pointed this out a long time ago.
Why do so many Web3 tokens crash and burn? The answer isn't some mystery—it's baked into how these things get made and sold to us.
The whole token creation playbook feels broken. Teams throw together tokenomics that look good on paper but fall apart in practice. Launch strategies? Often just hype cycles designed to pump bags for early insiders. And the narratives they feed us—"revolutionary utility," "game-changing ecosystem"—rarely match what actually gets built.
Honestly, way too many projects operate on vibes rather than vision. Slick marketing decks and influencer shoutouts replace actual product-market fit. Community engagement becomes an exit liquidity strategy.
The gap between what's promised and what's delivered keeps growing. Until teams start building with genuine purpose instead of chasing the next narrative trend, we'll keep seeing the same pattern: launch, pump, fade, repeat.