This playbook has already formed a complete closed loop.
The project team is responsible for creating tokens, venture capital institutions step in to endorse, studios mass-produce trading volume and fake data, platforms collect listing fees and share transaction fees, opinion leaders promote and hype everywhere, and in the end, leveraged trading is used to reap profits.
Every position on the entire chain can make money, everyone gets what they want and knows exactly what's going on.
From the early token issuance boom to the later wave of decentralized finance, this system has been running all along.
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PaperHandsCriminal
· 12-12 08:36
I've truly realized it only after being harvested; everyone makes a profit at each stage, and a retail investor like me is just here to give away money.
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CodeZeroBasis
· 12-11 00:42
To be honest, this entire rinse-and-repeat scheme for harvesting retail investors is truly unmatched, with each step working together so smoothly.
That's why I don't touch those new coins that suddenly explode in popularity; the tactics are too deep.
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RooftopReserver
· 12-09 13:02
To be honest, this system is already outdated, but everyone is pretending not to see it.
Everyone wants a piece of the pie, but in the end, it's always the retail investors who get left holding the bag.
That's why I advise people around me to stay away from leverage. What seems like simple logic is actually a carefully designed slaughterhouse behind the scenes.
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MEVHunter_9000
· 12-09 13:01
To put it simply, it's just a game of hot potato—whoever is left holding the bag at the end is screwed.
It's amazing that people still fall for this trick after so many years.
I've seen through it long ago; it's always the same story every time.
The ecosystem chain is so perfectly designed, it's almost scary... every part is out to suck you dry.
The most ridiculous thing is that influencers shamelessly post long articles every day teaching people how to "identify projects."
Is this really the current state of Web3? It feels even shadier than traditional finance.
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LiquidatedAgain
· 12-09 12:50
Liquidated yet again. I'm all too familiar with this assembly line for fleecing retail investors. As soon as the loan rate spikes, the liquidation price is right in front of me—that's how I end up with such heavy losses.
Leverage is really something else. Even when I know exactly where the risk control points are, I still go all in. If only I had known earlier.
Every part of this ecosystem makes money except for me—I’m the one losing out.
I see right through it, but I still play. Since it’s already dropped this much, might as well add to my position and try to catch the bottom—maybe I’ll get lucky. Anyway, the liquidation price is already set.
Everyone says this is just how the market works, but these so-called rules always seem designed to clean out retail investors like me.
This playbook has already formed a complete closed loop.
The project team is responsible for creating tokens, venture capital institutions step in to endorse, studios mass-produce trading volume and fake data, platforms collect listing fees and share transaction fees, opinion leaders promote and hype everywhere, and in the end, leveraged trading is used to reap profits.
Every position on the entire chain can make money, everyone gets what they want and knows exactly what's going on.
From the early token issuance boom to the later wave of decentralized finance, this system has been running all along.