Bitcoin
$59,351.71+2.55%
Ethereum
$2,977.92+1.27%
Binance Coin
$566.41+2.23%
Solana
$137.98+3.41%
XRP
$0.52020935+1.70%
Dogecoin
$0.13273322+3.52%
Toncoin
$5.38+12.11%
Cardano
$0.45185415+1.23%
Shiba Inu
$0.00002290+3.57%
Avalanche
$33.68+2.56%
Tron
$0.12223318+0.07%
Polkadot
$7.04+2.13%
PlayIconNav
Crypto Prices CoinDesk 20 Index CoinDesk 20 Index

rug pulls

When a zombie token gets removed from a crypto pricing site like CoinGecko, it's considered dead, even if it still technically exists on the blockchain. (Sergey Nikolaev/Unsplash)
Markets
Markets
Crypto Market’s Near-Apocalypse in 2022 Turns Zombie Tokens Into Dead Coins
The number of cryptocurrencies has dropped by about 1,000 since February, the biggest-ever decline, according to Statista. Often tokens are removed from pricing sites like Coi...
When a zombie token gets removed from a crypto pricing site like CoinGecko, it's considered dead, even if it still technically exists on the blockchain. (Sergey Nikolaev/Unsplash)
By Jocelyn Yang
Dec 13, 2022 at 7:33 p.m. UTC
Dec 13, 2022
Marketsrug pullsTradingtokenSTO
Chainalysis: DeFi ‘Rug Pull’ Scams Pulled in $2.8B This Year
Video
Defi
Chainalysis: DeFi ‘Rug Pull’ Scams Pulled in $2.8B This Year
Crypto investors in 2021 lost over $2.8 billion to “rug pulls,” a colloquial term for a type of crypto scam, according to Chainalysis. This year, the rise in scams reportedly...
Chainalysis: DeFi ‘Rug Pull’ Scams Pulled in $2.8B This Year
By CoinDesk Staff
Dec 18, 2021 at 9:17 a.m. UTC
Dec 18, 2021
DeFicdtvHash clipscamrug pulls