2025 Cryptocurrency Market Big Data: Over Half of the Projects Have Exited, with an Annual Failure Rate of 86%

2026-01-14 20:12:11

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【BitPush】According to the latest market data statistics, over 53% of cryptocurrencies issued since 2021 are no longer active. You read that right—about half of the projects have become inactive.

Even more astonishing is the situation in the past year. In 2025 alone, the number of failed projects accounted for 86% of all failures in history. What does this mean? It indicates that low-quality projects are being rapidly eliminated from the market.

Why is this happening? To a large extent, it is due to the emergence of low-threshold issuance platforms like pump.fun. As barriers to entry decrease, projects flood in, many of which are poorly made meme coins and tokens issued with minimal effort. These projects cannot withstand market tests and collapse quickly.

During the market surge in October 2025, there was a record-breaking $19 billion crash in crypto assets. How intense was this decline? Over the following three months, a total of 7.7 million tokens disappeared from the market. The market carried out a thorough cleanup in the most direct way.

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MoonRocketTeam

· 9h ago

86% failure rate? This is basically a purge, the boosters are all burned out. --- Platforms like pump.fun really go overboard; with low thresholds, trash projects swarm like locusts. --- $19 billion evaporated directly, 7.7 million tokens disappeared, and debris is flying everywhere. --- These poorly made projects should have been eliminated long ago; the market is self-healing. --- Half of the projects are lying flat? It seems like Bitcoin is getting stronger and stronger. --- This round of reshuffling is indeed fierce, but only those who survive are the real rockets.

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ReverseTradingGuru

· 9h ago

86% failure rate? Ha, this is exactly how the market should be. The folks at pump.fun really opened Pandora's box; now scam coins are everywhere. 7.7 million tokens have disappeared... To put it nicely, it's a clearance; to be blunt, it's a slaughter of retail investors. After this wave, we can finally see who is truly working and who is just harvesting profits. Half of the projects dying isn't a bad thing; at least it saves us from stepping on landmines.

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GmGnSleeper

· 9h ago

86% failure rate? Hmm... that really shows that pump.fun has indeed set up a production line for trash coins. It's satisfying, but ultimately, someone has to pay the price.

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