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92.9% of crypto tokens launched since 2024 trade below TGE price: CryptoRank

A recent analysis by CryptoRank reveals that 92.9% of cryptocurrency tokens launched since 2024 and with a market capitalization exceeding $100 million are now trading below their initial Token Generation Event (TGE) price. The study, examining 113 projects, found only eight—or 7.1%—remain profitable, with the median return across the dataset being a stark -95.7%. Top performers include Hyperliquid (HYPE), which gained 1,519%, followed by Ondo Finance (ONDO), EverValue Coin (EVA), and Midnight Network (NIGHT). The findings indicate a market that has become highly selective, with capital concentrating on a small number of projects demonstrating real utility, adoption, or ecosystem growth. This contrasts with previous cycles where new tokens often saw sustained rallies. Investors are now scrutinizing factors like tokenomics, circulating supply, and unlock schedules more closely. This trend may influence future token launches, prompting projects to prioritize sustainable distribution models and long-term growth over aggressive initial valuations, as high fully diluted valuations (FDVs) and large future token unlocks often lead to significant price pressure.

ambcrypto07/21 15:52

92.9% of crypto tokens launched since 2024 trade below TGE price: CryptoRank

ambcrypto07/21 15:52

Bought Bitcoin at $117,000, Sold at $62,000 in Tears: This Company’s Faith Only Lasted a Year

Wall Street's once-hot trend of corporate "Bitcoin hoarding" has hit a painful reality check. Empery Digital, formerly an electric motorcycle company, pivoted to Bitcoin in July 2025, accumulating over 4,000 BTC at an average cost of approximately $117,600 each. As Bitcoin's price plummeted, the company faced massive paper losses exceeding its total market value by early 2026, triggering internal conflict with a major shareholder demanding a sale. In a stark reversal from its earlier refusal to sell, Empery Digital recently sold 1,400 BTC at an average price of $62,000, locking in a significant loss of roughly $77 million on just those coins. The proceeds were used to pay down $10 million in debt, prepare for legal fees related to shareholder lawsuits, and, most notably, fund a new strategic shift: a $65 million investment for a 25% stake in an AI data center facility. This move completes a cycle of chasing market trends—from electric vehicles to Bitcoin treasury and now to AI infrastructure. Empery's case exposes the leveraged nature of the corporate "treasury model," where buying Bitcoin with borrowed money works only while prices rise. Once the asset fell below its cost basis, the company was forced to sell at a loss to service debt and pivot to the next opportunity. The company's remaining assets are 1,514 BTC and its ambitions in AI, demonstrating that its stated "long-term belief" in Bitcoin had a clear price tag: a 50% discount.

marsbit07/21 01:25

Bought Bitcoin at $117,000, Sold at $62,000 in Tears: This Company’s Faith Only Lasted a Year

marsbit07/21 01:25

Recent Bitcoin buyers panic-sell amid $90M capitulation: $66K is BTC’s last stand

Recent Bitcoin buyers are panic-selling at a loss, with $90 million in realized losses indicating capitulation among those who bought between $75,000 and $126,000. This selling pressure is transferring coins to stronger hands. However, new demand is emerging, forming a support base between $62,000 and $65,000. The key level for confirming a sustained recovery is $66,000; a break above this could signal continued upside momentum, while failure may revive selling pressure. Although seller exhaustion is rising and demand is improving, stronger spot buying is still needed to validate a trend reversal.

ambcrypto07/19 11:02

Recent Bitcoin buyers panic-sell amid $90M capitulation: $66K is BTC’s last stand

ambcrypto07/19 11:02

Prices From the Future Fool the Oracle, Ostium Drained of $24 Million in Five Minutes

Ostium, a perpetual trading platform, suffered a security incident on July 15, resulting in significant losses from its public liquidity vault. Initial analyses from Blockaid, Cyvers, and PeckShield estimate losses of up to $24 million. The exploit occurred over a five-minute window. According to security firms, the core issue was not a missing signature, but a data integrity failure: a registered price oracle (PriceUpKeep) submitted authorized price reports with manipulated future timestamps, creating false trading profits. The protocol’s verification process confirmed the signatures as authorized but did not enforce price sanity checks or timestamp boundaries, allowing the manipulated data to be accepted for settlement. This caused the liquidity vault to pay out on these fraudulent profits. Ostium’s co-founder confirmed the team paused trading within an hour and is collaborating with law enforcement and security experts. The extracted funds were reportedly swapped for ETH, with a portion moved to Tornado Cash. The incident highlights risks in DeFi oracle designs where cryptographic signature verification is insufficient without additional safeguards for data validity, timestamp freshness, and price reasonableness. Ostium's response and planned fixes—including stricter timestamp validation, independent price checks, and circuit breakers—will be critical to preventing similar exploits.

marsbit07/17 05:33

Prices From the Future Fool the Oracle, Ostium Drained of $24 Million in Five Minutes

marsbit07/17 05:33

Pledging ETH Earned a Steady $46 Million, So Why is BitMine Still Deep in the Red?

BitMine reported a significant surge in revenue for Q3 FY2026, driven by its Ethereum staking and validation business which generated $45.7 million. However, the company posted a net loss of $83.6 million, primarily due to a $92.1 million loss from Ethereum derivatives and options trading. This loss, stemming largely from expired contracts and exercised positions, completely offset the gains from staking. To fund its aggressive accumulation of Ethereum, BitMine has heavily relied on equity financing, significantly diluting existing shareholders. In the first nine months of the fiscal year, it issued over 340 million shares to raise approximately $11.87 billion, using most of it to purchase Ethereum. As of May 31, the company held 5.42 million ETH with an average cost of $19.05 billion, resulting in an unrealized loss of roughly $8.2 billion due to market depreciation. While staking provides a stable cash flow that covers core operational costs, the company faces rising expenses from long-term service agreements and high management fees. Additionally, BitMine remains highly dependent on continuous access to capital markets for funding its operations and expansion. The company's long-term viability hinges on its staking income consistently covering these costs and future losses, its ability to secure ongoing equity financing, and a substantial recovery in the price of Ethereum.

marsbit07/16 04:19

Pledging ETH Earned a Steady $46 Million, So Why is BitMine Still Deep in the Red?

marsbit07/16 04:19

Robinhood Chain Sees 'Disappearing Token' Scam: Tokens Vanish After Purchase, Private Keys Secure But Funds Evaporate

CryptoSlate reports that a novel scam has emerged on Robinhood Chain, the permissionless Ethereum Layer 2 launched by Robinhood. Cross-chain protocol Relay has issued a warning about fraudulent tokens designed to self-destruct or disappear from users' wallets immediately after purchase, resulting in a total loss of the funds spent. Notably, the incidents do not involve stolen private keys or compromise of other assets in the wallet, isolating the loss to the specific purchased token. Relay is responding by blocking the identified scam tokens and verifying others it deems safe, while emphasizing that anyone can list tokens on the permissionless chain. The warning highlights the inherent risks of a "buy-first, vet-later" environment on permissionless networks, where scam contracts can outpace security warnings. The report coincides with a surge in speculative trading on the new chain, including significant decentralized exchange volume and integration with platforms like Pump.fun. The article raises questions about which interfaces users employed for the transactions and the effectiveness of pre-transaction screening by various service providers like Relay, 0x API, and LI.FI. It underscores the challenge of ensuring warnings reach users before they finalize irreversible purchases in a fast-moving, open ecosystem.

marsbit07/14 06:26

Robinhood Chain Sees 'Disappearing Token' Scam: Tokens Vanish After Purchase, Private Keys Secure But Funds Evaporate

marsbit07/14 06:26

The Preferred Stock Domino Effect: Strive Incurs a 7.08 Million Dollar Loss, Strategic Risk Spreading in a Chain Reaction

"Priority Stock Domino Effect": Strive's $7.08 Million Loss Reveals Chain-Reaction Risk in Bitcoin Reserve Sector Bitcoin reserve company-issued preferred shares are no longer just yield assets but a credit test for balance sheet health. While focus remains on Strategy, Strive, the 7th largest public Bitcoin holder, disclosed a tangible spillover effect: its holding of Strategy's (STRC) preferred shares lost $7.08 million in fair value over eight days, despite no change in share count. This exposes a clear cross-company risk transmission channel within the sector. Strive's filing shows its 505,000 STRC shares fell from ~$88.59 to ~$74.57 per share. While Strive remains solvent with 19,864 BTC and $141.7M cash, the loss signals that preferred stock risks can spread via inter-company holdings, shifting their perception from stable income to credit-like, high-risk assets dependent on issuer liquidity and dividend sustainability. In response, Strategy unveiled a "Digital Credit Capital Framework," raising STRC's annual dividend to 12%, mandating a 12-month cash reserve for dividends, and authorizing up to $1B each for STRC/common stock buybacks and a $1.25B Bitcoin sale plan to bolster reserves. This marks a shift to active credit risk management, formally incorporating potential Bitcoin sales to stabilize its capital structure. Third-party valuation tools, like Farside's calculator estimating STRC's net present value at ~$49.89, highlight that pricing now hinges critically on perpetual dividend sustainability and the issuer's ability to pay amid market volatility. Bitcoin's price (~$62k) remains below Strategy's average cost basis ($75,651), intensifying focus on reserve policies. The market faces two scenarios: 1) Contained risk, where STRC's discount narrows and stress is limited to Strategy; or 2) Systemic risk, where deep STRC discounts persist, dividend hikes fail, Bitcoin sales commence, and pressure spreads to other issuers like Strive's SATA shares. Key indicators to watch are STRC/SATA discount levels, dividend coverage credibility, equity issuance rates, and any actual Bitcoin divestment. Strive's future reports will be crucial in determining if its loss is an isolated event or the first sign of sector-wide credit risk contagion via preferred shares.

marsbit07/09 09:01

The Preferred Stock Domino Effect: Strive Incurs a 7.08 Million Dollar Loss, Strategic Risk Spreading in a Chain Reaction

marsbit07/09 09:01

How a Listed Company Died: Gambling $1.46 Billion on WLFI, with $540 Million Ending Up in Trump Family's Pockets

The article details the downfall of AI Financial Corporation (formerly Alt5 Sigma), a Nasdaq-listed fintech company. In August 2025, the company, whose board overlapped with the crypto project World Liberty Financial (WLFI), was acquired via a $750 million WLFI token payment. It then raised another $750 million in cash from investors to buy more WLFI tokens, totaling a $1.46 billion bet at ~$0.20 per token. The strategy proved disastrous. WLFI's price plummeted ~70% to ~$0.057, causing over $750 million in unrealized losses on the largely locked-up tokens. With its core payment business being sold, AI Financial now holds illiquid tokens, ~$10.5 million in depleting cash, and a going-concern warning from the SEC. Its stock fell over 90%. Crucially, of the $750 million cash used to buy WLFI tokens, an estimated $540 million flowed to Trump-affiliated entities due to WLFI's revenue-sharing structure, contributing to Trump's reported $1.4+ billion in 2025 crypto-related income. The case highlights the extreme risks for public companies making large, illiquid bets on single crypto assets.

Foresight News07/09 08:07

How a Listed Company Died: Gambling $1.46 Billion on WLFI, with $540 Million Ending Up in Trump Family's Pockets

Foresight News07/09 08:07

Strive's Paper Loss Warning: Pressure from Strategy Preferred Shares Has Spread Across the Entire Bitcoin Treasury Track

Strive's disclosure that its holdings of Strategy's (STRC) preferred shares lost $7.08 million in value over eight days signals that credit risks are spreading across the Bitcoin reserve industry through cross-holdings. While not proof of insolvency, it shows how valuation pressure on one firm's securities can directly impact another's balance sheet. Strategy responded with a comprehensive credit management framework, including raising STRC dividends to 12%, authorizing share buybacks, and formalizing a plan to potentially sell Bitcoin to bolster its $2.55 billion cash reserve. However, third-party models value STRC at around $49.89 per share, far below its $100 face value, highlighting that its price depends critically on the sustainability of dividends and Strategy's financial health. The market now watches for two scenarios: either the risk is contained to Strategy, or it spreads industry-wide if STRC's discount deepens, dividends become unsustainable, and pressure spills over to securities like Strive's SATA. Key indicators to monitor are the discount rates of STRC and SATA, cash coverage for dividends, share issuance activity, and whether Bitcoin sales move from authorization to execution.

Foresight News07/09 07:10

Strive's Paper Loss Warning: Pressure from Strategy Preferred Shares Has Spread Across the Entire Bitcoin Treasury Track

Foresight News07/09 07:10

Blood Loss of $55 Million Selling 3,588 BTC, Strategy Becomes a Literal Scumbag

On July 6th, Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) disclosed in an SEC filing that it sold 3,588 Bitcoin (BTC) between June 29th and July 5th for approximately $216 million, at an average price of ~$60,200. This marked the company's largest net sale since initiating its Bitcoin strategy in 2020 and its first institutionalized reduction of its core holding. The sale resulted in a realized loss of about $54.8 million, as the selling price was below its average cost basis of ~$75,476 per BTC. The proceeds were used to pay preferred stock dividends and replenish USD reserves. This move follows a new "Digital Credit Capital Framework" approved on June 29th, authorizing the sale of up to $1.25 billion in Bitcoin. The sale consumes roughly 17% of this authorized amount in its first week. Strategy's foundational narrative, built by founder Michael Saylor, was a commitment to "never sell" Bitcoin. The recent institutionalized selling framework and these substantial sales represent a significant shift from that original promise. While the amount sold is only 0.4% of Strategy's total holdings of 843,775 BTC, the action challenges the premium at which its stock (MSTR) trades relative to its Bitcoin holdings. Investors had priced in the "never sell" narrative. The company now faces a contradiction: it sells Bitcoin at a loss to pay dividends on the preferred stock it issued to fund Bitcoin purchases. Saylor has framed selling as a tool for future strategic purchases, but each sale erodes the credibility of the original commitment, potentially threatening the premium valuation of MSTR shares.

Foresight News07/07 06:05

Blood Loss of $55 Million Selling 3,588 BTC, Strategy Becomes a Literal Scumbag

Foresight News07/07 06:05

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