If you are still clinging to those once-popular coins, it's time to face a reality: this is not a simple pullback, but a significant devaluation of assets.
Just look at these data and you'll understand. $APT and $OP, the popular projects from the last round, have dropped 90% from their highs and now have only one-tenth of their market value. What's even more heartbreaking are those coins with little practical application, which have shrunk even more absurdly—some are worth only one-third of their value, meaning they would need to increase 30 times to return to their former positions. $GTC, which was once considered a "solid bottom" coin, has long fallen below 1 dollar to 0.1 dollars. The traditional bottom-fishing logic has completely failed. What we are facing may be a market with no clear bottom, and it could continue to drop by another 80%.
The recent trend of altcoins is essentially a transfer of wealth.
When many people realize that their coins need miraculous increases to break even, a deeper question arises: how can we truly protect the value of our assets in a market filled with extreme volatility, bubble narratives, and liquidity traps?
If even projects that seem to have a good fundamental can easily evaporate by ninety percent, then is the cryptocurrency world destined to become a casino? This painful thought actually points to a field that has been long ignored amidst the clamor of the bull market—value-stable infrastructure. Meaningful projects are not about creating hundred-fold myths through storytelling, but rather about being able to traverse bull and bear cycles and provide certainty.
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HappyToBeDumped
· 2h ago
Damn, GTC has fallen to pieces, and I'm still holding on for dear life.
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GameFiCritic
· 2h ago
What does a 90% fall signify? It indicates that there is fundamentally no support, it's all just air.
To be honest, the valuations of projects like APT and OP were ridiculous at that time, and the current pullback is merely the market clearing out. The real issue is that those coins without actual user activity are essentially just a parameter game, with no sustainable economic incentive model; how can they possibly survive long-term?
However, this downturn also reveals a truth: most projects have never conducted player retention rate tests, and the token deflation design is practically nonexistent. If you ask me, rather than chasing a 30x miracle, it's better to look for those that can withstand cycles and have real use cases as infrastructure. That is the true nature of quality leverage.
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HodlAndChill
· 3h ago
To be honest, I already cut loss on my APT and don't want to wait for a miracle anymore.
Now I understand that the theory of buying the dip is truly deceptive.
This round has made me realize what real wealth transfer means; my money has gone into the pockets of market makers.
Rather than waiting for a 30x miracle, it's better to look for things with real applications.
GTC has fallen from the "iron bottom" to worthless paper, which is quite frustrating.
That said, the market is just a casino; who can guarantee they won't be part of the 90% vaporized.
It feels like the entire crypto world is just telling stories, while truly valuable things are ignored.
Where is the bottom? Who the hell knows, it might still fall further.
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StealthMoon
· 3h ago
Here comes another curse-like pessimism... But to be fair, GTC really fell from $1 to $0.1, that was indeed something else. Where are the people who were hyping it as the bottom back then?
If you are still clinging to those once-popular coins, it's time to face a reality: this is not a simple pullback, but a significant devaluation of assets.
Just look at these data and you'll understand. $APT and $OP, the popular projects from the last round, have dropped 90% from their highs and now have only one-tenth of their market value. What's even more heartbreaking are those coins with little practical application, which have shrunk even more absurdly—some are worth only one-third of their value, meaning they would need to increase 30 times to return to their former positions. $GTC, which was once considered a "solid bottom" coin, has long fallen below 1 dollar to 0.1 dollars. The traditional bottom-fishing logic has completely failed. What we are facing may be a market with no clear bottom, and it could continue to drop by another 80%.
The recent trend of altcoins is essentially a transfer of wealth.
When many people realize that their coins need miraculous increases to break even, a deeper question arises: how can we truly protect the value of our assets in a market filled with extreme volatility, bubble narratives, and liquidity traps?
If even projects that seem to have a good fundamental can easily evaporate by ninety percent, then is the cryptocurrency world destined to become a casino? This painful thought actually points to a field that has been long ignored amidst the clamor of the bull market—value-stable infrastructure. Meaningful projects are not about creating hundred-fold myths through storytelling, but rather about being able to traverse bull and bear cycles and provide certainty.