2025-12-30 10:25:24

Looking at the data from the past year, you can feel the market's changes—among all cryptocurrencies with a circulating market cap over 100 million, about 70% are in loss. This is not a low-probability event, but a signal.

What does this indicate? It shows that even relatively well-known projects, holding them doesn't necessarily mean you'll make money. How many of those once-promised application innovations in altcoins have actually been implemented? The answer is likely to be disappointing. Many application-layer innovations promised in the crypto market have completely failed in practice, and this is an unavoidable reality.

What’s more painful is that retail investors' enthusiasm for various "new narratives" has clearly declined. No matter how project teams spin their stories, the market's wallets are telling the truth—they are no longer so easily swayed.

Apart from Bitcoin, the backbone of the market, the entire altcoin market has already formed a strong money-losing effect. This is the pain of market restructuring. The crypto space still maintains the highest issuance efficiency and the most diverse range of tokens, but the trend is changing—the era of altcoins may really be coming to an end.

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ZeroRushCaptain

· 5h ago

Seventy percent loss? I feel like it's eighty percent. The data might not have captured my contrarian indicators. Altcoins are dead, but I am still alive. That is my competitive edge. No matter how good the story is told, it can't compete with the ruthlessness of the wallet. This is experience gained through blood and tears. Market restructuring pain? No, this is a clear-out, preparing for the next wave of charge. Retail investors have learned to be smart, but us old chives have long since set aside rationality and started following our instincts. Bull and bear cycles are like this. Today’s casualties include me, and tomorrow’s turnaround winners will also include me. Diving into altcoins? Sure, as long as you can accept them meeting their maker.

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FomoAnxiety

· 6h ago

70% loss... This data is pretty brutal, no wonder no one believes the story anymore.

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ForkTrooper

· 6h ago

Seventy percent loss, this data looks quite hopeless... No one is buying the story anymore. --- Another year of new coins dying, old investors gaining wisdom. --- Honestly, it's time to clear the field; this way is pretty good. --- Altcoins have cooled off several times; is this time really different? I’m not convinced. --- Wallets speak the truth, I love this phrase. --- Innovation turning into "boasting about innovation," I knew it wouldn’t deceive me. --- Retail investors have really learned to be smart, at least not so easy to pay the IQ tax. --- BTC is holding steady there, all the shitcoins are collapsing, normal. --- This round of cleansing was thorough; only those who survive are worth watching. --- New narratives keep emerging, but in the end, they all lead to zero... --- Is the 70% loss serious, or is it just another round of cutting? --- You’re so right, the era of just telling stories is really coming to an end.

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DaoDeveloper

· 6h ago

ngl the 70% underwater stat hits different when you actually run the numbers on tokenomics design... most projects just copy-paste the whitepaper template without auditing their own incentive mechanisms fr

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