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The Crypto Market Is Dead: No Retail Buyers Left, Faith Is Gone, and 6,000 Out of 8,000 Projects Are Pure Scams

|Author: Viacheslav Vasipenok|6 min read| 9
The Crypto Market Is Dead: No Retail Buyers Left, Faith Is Gone, and 6,000 Out of 8,000 Projects Are Pure Scams

The music has been playing non-stop since 2017, but the spring in the gramophone is finally winding down. No one left to crank it.  

The Crypto Market Is Dead: No Retail Buyers Left, Faith Is Gone, and 6,000 Out of 8,000 Projects Are Pure ScamsIn the last week alone, another 20 crypto projects vanished — erased, delisted, bankrupt. In the last year, 3,000 have been wiped from the registers. That’s not a “correction.” That’s reality finally catching up with the longest-running con in financial history.

Why are they dying now? Because these were fraudulent projects that somehow limped along until the cost of keeping the lie alive finally exceeded the cost of shutting the doors. Maintenance became more expensive than closure. The scam factories can no longer afford the electricity.

And yet the rating systems are still bloated with garbage. Just memecoins alone — 5,218 of them. Total coins sitting at 8,255. You want to name more than two that actually matter? Doge… and… yeah, good luck. The rest is landfill.

The Crypto Market Is Dead: No Retail Buyers Left, Faith Is Gone, and 6,000 Out of 8,000 Projects Are Pure ScamsWe have been screaming this for years: there are no more than 2,000 somewhat legitimate crypto projects on the entire planet. Projects that actually deliver any real, tangible benefit? Maybe 400. And even then, there is zero guarantee they will ever make their investors a single dollar.

Everything else is garbage manufactured to fleece the gullible. And that garbage is about to be swept away in the Great Crypto Purge — the one we have been warning about for years (see: another 10 crypto companies erased forever in just five days — now only 8,255 left. The purge is accelerating.

After the purge finishes its work, no more than 50 % of the current 8,255 will remain. Think about that number. Five thousand memecoins. Five thousand digital nothing-burgers. The scale of the deception is biblical.

This is not a “crypto winter.” This is Pearl Harbor and a bloodbath rolled into one.

The gramophone still has just enough wind left to keep scratching out a tune, but the needle is shot, the spring is slack, and the only question left is when — not if — it finally stops.

The Crypto Market Is Dead: No Retail Buyers Left, Faith Is Gone, and 6,000 Out of 8,000 Projects Are Pure ScamsAll the loudmouth announcements, the paid celebrity shills, the “this time it’s different” articles from the industry’s biggest fraudsters — they don’t move the needle anymore. They know it. We know it. The public finally knows it too.

They spent a decade accumulating obscene capital and then burned it on politicians, celebrities, YouTubers — anyone who could help prolong the death throes. But now the math has flipped. Costs have overtaken profits. The gap is widening at lightspeed. Their war chests are melting. There is no new blood — no fresh wave of suckers. The ideas have run dry. Most importantly, the very idea of crypto has been debased and the trust is gone.

You cannot lie to everyone forever. Eventually the bill comes due.

They are standing on the edge of the abyss right now — an abyss that will swallow billions and, for some, their entire lives. But they still can’t believe it. For almost ten years the money flowed like a river. They bought everyone who mattered. Then the black swan of the crypto market crept up behind them without warning.

The wallets of the largest holders are already deep underwater. This is only the beginning.

This is not the market “maturing.” This is the market being completely transformed into something else entirely.

Here’s the part almost no one dares to say out loud:

The Crypto Market Is Dead: No Retail Buyers Left, Faith Is Gone, and 6,000 Out of 8,000 Projects Are Pure Scams90 % of all scam projects were not created by random street-level scammers.  
They were created by the so-called “leaders of the industry” — primarily the big centralized exchanges themselves, or with their direct blessing and support.

These same CEXes happily listed obvious garbage, collected trading fees, listing fees, market-making fees, marketing fees, and — under the table — straight-up bribes for laundering operations. Real projects? They were strangled at birth. Advisors demanded insane terms, listing costs were deliberately set at extortion levels, and once listed the exchanges did everything possible to kill them off.

We have been on this market for ten straight years. We have seen the underbelly. We are still here. We are still writing the truth. Everyone else got bought or got scared. Not us.

Our project survived the meat grinder. We took massive losses, walked away from every single centralized exchange, and moved our QUA token exclusively to decentralized platforms. Yes, we know exactly how “decentralized” some of them really are — but the scammers have far fewer levers to pull here.

The Crypto Market Is Dead: No Retail Buyers Left, Faith Is Gone, and 6,000 Out of 8,000 Projects Are Pure ScamsWe built something the industry never wanted to exist:

  • Quasa Connect — the world’s first and only mobile app for crypto freelancing.  
  • Quasa Rewards — the world’s first platform that pays users in crypto for simply surfing the web.

Real products. Real technology. Multi-billion-dollar markets (remote work and digital advertising). Products that millions of people actually need.

Yet the same fraudulent CEXes still harass us. They tell us we can’t survive without their listings. They point to the hundreds of legitimate projects they have already destroyed as proof. They demand listing fees that start at $30–50k just to “hook the fish” and then run the full extraction machine — marketing, fake volume, market making — before the final extortion under threat of delisting. $100k? $300k? What normal startup in the world can afford that?

None. Zero.

They built a moat worthy of Warren Buffett — except they built it with fraud, coercion, and monopoly power over access to the crypto audience.

That swamp is now drying up. Not because regulators suddenly grew a spine, but because the conditions have changed. There is no fresh inflow. The parasites have nothing left to feed on. The scum is dying.

Only the few real projects will survive.

The rest? They had a good run. Ten years of easy money, easy lies, easy marks.

The gramophone is stopping. The purge is accelerating.

And this time, no one is coming to wind it back up.

P.S.

The Crypto Market Is Dead: No Retail Buyers Left, Faith Is Gone, and 6,000 Out of 8,000 Projects Are Pure ScamsThe gramophone is dying.  
The spring has snapped.

With it dies the entire empire of centralized scammers and their artificial moat. The transformation is brutal, but necessary. Out of 8,255 coins only the real ones will survive — and there are far fewer than the market wants you to believe.

Quasa is one of them.  
We survived the decade of lies. We left their rigged exchanges. We built products the world actually needs.

The purge is not destruction.  
It is justice.

And after justice comes the real game.

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