Coffee with Captain: Crypto Markets, Products and Culture
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Coffee with Captain: Crypto Markets, Products and Culture
Trove Markets ICO Crashes 95%, KOL Shill Backlash
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Trove’s botched launch turns into a real-time breakdown of what the hosts mean when they call something a rug, with KOLs taking heat for undisclosed paid shills tied to the same blowup. The Coffee Crew rewind the setup from the Hyper-EVM expectation to the Solana pivot, then get into the fallout, missing liquidity and ICO funds still not refunded, including a claim the project is holding about $9.4M. The throughline is credibility. If you’re paid to promote something, disclose it and stop dressing it up as organic signal. They also point to X and Grok opening up the algorithm as fuel for faster narrative churn and copycat takes. The episode closes on a bet that InfoFi and crypto media shift toward fewer, more trusted creators and away from leaderboard farming.
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