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Hi,

I see lots of abandoned crypto projects with potential and lets say I am interested in one of them and want to keep the devlopment going. What should I do to achieve that?
Do I need to talk to the creators of the project?

Looking for some insight on it.

Thanks

Yes, you can start with talk CEO or Creator if they are interested on your next plans. Last year and 2018, I saw several projects dead for lack funds. This legit project was refunded which investor trust those projects. Development team was good or not, justify before start talking with CEO. Of course you need more trust something and more better team members.

You shouldn't, it's a bad move entirely you will end wasting your time, I suggest you create your own idea and your own coin, once a coin get abandoned investors moves on

I've seen it happen many times, and my advice is AVOID at any cost.
Because even if you do make something out of a dead project, and it somehow ends up in an exchange, the previous owner/dev will somehow show up with bags full of it and dump it into the ground.
You will loose all you money and confidence from the people.

So stay away. As said above, create your own from scratch.

If a crypto was abandoned, it's very likely that it was because:

1) It was vaporware or a scam
2) Probably wasn't listed on exchanges so the market didn't care about the coin
3) Developers didn't want to spend time and resources on a dead coin and decided to bail

Honestly, don't waste your time on them. Be original and create your own project from scratch.

Forgot about them, if they are realy decentralized, they should have an open source code, so pick the code, improve it and create your own better project than making a live dead notworking project :).

Honestly, I don't think I have ever seen a cryptocurrency come back from the dead, at least not from completely dead like you appear to be referring to.

Ethereum Classic (ETC) recently experienced a revival of sorts after pumping a bunch of money into the project, but I'm not sure you've got the kind of capital necessary to do something like that.

I'd personally just make a post in the project development section and ask people if they're looking to sell or hand over their project. If you've got the right team, funds and skills, then nothing is impossible.

But I'd imagine starting with a dead coin is actually even more difficult than starting with something completely new.

You must re-build the reputation of the project and this is the most difficult task that already avoided by so many new developers consider that needs a very long time to do that. Abandoned project doesn't always mean if that was totally abandoned by the developers and in another way it can also be a scam project too and how you can build the trust from investors to trust the scam project again? it's impossible to happen.

Agree with you, why not create your own project by building your own team. Because if you take over it will definitely require costs by them and people already have a bad view that before it had failed before

Depends. If this project was abandoned means its has nothing rare or good to offer. But theres always a doubt about that right. What you need to do is study first how the projects work, then talk to the developer and create more strategies on how to promote it.


This is also good. An open source can be improved by interesting individual, and those who owned it can probably agree with such collaboration. Money is needed but if you can spare some then there is no problem. Continue to improve it and make some community members that can support you.

You can do this, if the product is working or has potential. Showcase its strenght then if its good. Community will help you to spread it even without any compensation at all.

Why not creating a new one ? Or if you want, you can fork the coin to the new coin.
The previous holders can receive the airdrop base on the amount of their coins.
Continuing a dead coin is harder than start a new coin because the trust of people already gone on dead coin.

Probably not good idea though. Cause it's too much risky to invest or own that projects which people or investors didn't showed so much interest about it earlier. But if you think that project have unique idea and have possibility to reach success with doing proper advisement/marketing then it's worth to try.

For that of course you have to contact with that person who owned that project already and try to convene him with proper idea about why you interest to restart that project again. But you have to careful in every single steps otherwise you will get scam very badly. In this crypto world trust is precious thing, if you have doubt 0.0001% about anything then stay away from that.

It will be better if you relaunch the coin with new name and some new features. If you are going to contact with the team of the project, I think you will get no response because you know if they were active and interested, the porject would not die at the first place.

Just relaunch the ICO to get funds from the investors as long as you have get enough funds you could easily continue the development of the dead token.

But since it is already dead I don't think a lot of users is still going to invest in your token since it already has a bad history, Creating a new one could be the best option also there are already a lot of scam ICO or token in the market so I think it would be difficult to make a successful token this day if you are just relaying in the investors funds. Anyway, it was just my opinion.

Is not the project that has been abandoned is no longer trusted by the community so that many leave it?
Continue to be here want to run on the development I think it needs from the beginning again because the project is dead so it's better with a new name or a new project with a new concept then I think it will be more appealed to have to continue the project that was abandoned.
Need to persevere in building a solid project and team to market it.

My first question would be, why are you interested in a dead altcoin project ?? And do you think you can actually revive such and complete its product development ?

Well, back to your question, you certainly can get access to such, first you need to contact the ceo of the altcoin, and its dev team for proper handover of the project.
Then you would need to conduct to a token swap and burn to reduce total supply, and keep you in control of the token supply.

I am not sure it is the best of choices, but you can dyor and make it work

Some of the coins were not scam. I remember HeavyCoin (http://heavycoin.github.io/), for example.
Such coins may even have full github source code and list of bugs and fixes.

But.. most such coins are from the (dead) era when a coin was considered good only because it had a new mining algorithm.
Those days are imho long gone and never to return. Now a coin has to be better than that. It has to have a good use, a good platform behind it, an idea, a niche; else we can simply use Bitcoin or some established altcoins, which we already do, so your effort will be useless.

So the conclusion is basically the same: you will have to come up with a brilliant idea, not just programming skills.

There must be good reasons why it was abandoned in the first place, old dev might have even use the project to scam already, do not waste your time trying to revive a dead coin, they are better left dead, if it's good it won't be dead

Same suggestion's with me,if you have a good idea that you think will have more support from community its better to have your own and start from scratch it is the same as making alive a dead project. The things better if you are the owner you have the control of the supply when ,where. What will the plan to supply distribution.

If you dont know how to make your own then you can hire a blockchain developer to make them for you.

You can ask the developer of the project if you can, because most of them will leave the project and just let it be. Other than I really doubt if there will be a user who will interested to the project again. Although you make a creative promotion but must likely the project that you develop will be a shitcoin for the second time. I am weird to you, if you are developer and can build a project with well, why you don't create your project? You can start everything that you want and you can promote the project that you want.

Why restarting a dead project when you can pull up a team and create yours; unless you have no idea which is applicable yet. However, if you want to go that path, the best is meeting with the CEO or team of the project to discuss with them and know what actually lead to the death of the altcoin. There are many reasons which might lead to the death of an altcoin such as the team losing focus, listing on bad exchange etc. Also, another thing to bear in mind is there are holders with large amounts who won't hesitate to dump when there is opportunity thus a concrete plan need to be in place to ensure it is controlled.

How much efforts and possibility of recovering a dead crypto project into alive one is bringing back a died person into alive status, its almost impossible so don't try doing it. :)

no need, just create your own altcoin.. its better than to restart a dead altcoin.. there are so many disadvantages and you will just waste your money..

I am still learning grips of crypto currency and to the best of my knowledge regarding altcoins, what is dead (alt) will never rise again.

Remember, there's a difference between a dumped token and a dead altcoin project.

Ensure to do your own research

That's the best approach here, just create your own project.
Because as a developer, you can use some open source codes and just rectify it.
Dead projects - it will be hard to talk to those devs and I don't think they will be willing to lend their time to guide you, as they already abandoned the project.
You also need to buy your own domain and hosting, don't ever think that you will just use their old domain and acquire the ownership from the old dev, that's a total headache.
Better start on your own so you don't have to be relying on someone that is not reliable.
I hope the OP will not go the route of chasing those old devs. Just be your own boss.

You would need to approach and tell them if they do have still plans to revive the project or not, but i doubt that you cant simply find them since majority of projects nowadays is been created by anonymous devs unless if you do attached or engage with legit projects with known devs or team then you do have the chance for you to approach them.Yes, any project can have that chance
but im not sure if the dedication would be still the same in talks with dev's side, once they do fail and do able to saw that theres no much support in the past then they will presume that high
chances it would be repeated out. It all matters with projects relevance or actual usage for it to get some recognition.

You will do extra work on the dead project if you plan to revive it, you want an advice? Don't! It's better to create a project from scratch, if you revive a dead coin you will have to confuse many that it's better, meaning you will go extra miles compare to new coin

You can ask them for their permission,

But you know, if it was abandoned already or a dead coin, there is no need for you to try reviving it. There is no such project that made a comeback, you will only have a hard time and there is no wonder that your hard work will be put to waste. It's better to build-up your own project and prove that it is worth it to stand in this market.

It will be hard to be revive especially if those projects had accusations or had bad reputations. People or investors will remembers it still would accuse ofnl something similar in the past. I would say try to create your own, and be unique and will stand out for its competitors and will get the attentions of investors and community in crypto world.

Usually, we call a restart of a dead coin is a takeover if the original devs willing to part away. This is the hard part since even it is a dead coin, some devs don't want to giving it easily without any compensation. I think its the best if you do a takeover in a swap process. Dead coins can be swap to a new coin and it is now in your control. Whether you want to keep the spirit of the dead or improve it further is on you.

Why would you want to resurrect someone else's failure? I think you would be better off starting from scratch. If you take on someone else's project you also get all the disappointed investors from that project as well as the reputation of having failed. It is hard enough to find success. Do yourself a favour and start from scratch. If they have some tech or code you want ask to buy it or license it.

If they dont have public repo with code with right licence than you need to talk with team. Maybe they ready to sell or gift this project to you

It's bad idea trying to revive something that's already a total failure, you have many challenges in front of you and the most scary on is winning the community back, investors won't trust you, no one will be willing to take risk on such project

Don't you think its best to just create a fresh start instead of restarting reviving the dead?

If you haven't picked the dead coin to revive you might wanna think over again because the dead coin you cold pick could have lots of problem in the end. Probably the team had been already accused of scam. Or the previous developer still has lots to dump. It's hard to rebuild a ruined reputation.

Before you do this I suggest you do some research maybe you can find information about a once dead coin that was bring back to live and did very well in crypto market, well I haven't seen a single project that was once dead doing well today, better to leave them dead

Sure, you need to contact the person who created the project. If they were still there, it would certainly be easy. But I bet they got out of this market when they let their project die and cost a lot of investors.

If a project is already dead, it's best to skip it because investors won't trust the project anymore. If you keep trying to develop it then it's just meaningless action, it will quickly die again.

Do not restart a dead coin, build yours from the ground up and safe yourself from a second death of the coin, the truth is no one will have interest once they knew the coin was once dead.

If you have a good use case in mind then find yourself good team, introduce something very new and useful then you will caught the attention of the community, once you have a strong community support you will be unstoppable.

well I guess no one will interest with the project because it was already abandoned, people will no longer trust they do not want to risk that already failed. It is better to launch a new one.

Not just the creators of the project. It may happen that the creators have also left or they were just hired for it within a specific time frame. I guess you should contact the one in control of the project even though it is already dormant, the ones who have the rights and legal ownership over it.

IMO, stop wasting your time that you have in your mind.
It is not the same anymore because I think what's in your mind is that what if that dead coin starts to pump through your management.
Sorry if I'm discouraging you but it won't happen, a dead coin won't get up to its grave.

Exactly, just launch a new project. If the idea of a dead project is good, then you can keep using that idea on your new project. It can easily attract more investors

Sincerely, I will tell you not to bother trying that, it is not worth your money, attention and effort. The reason is, there was a reason why the project failed and will likely fail again, the project might have been a scam project, a replica or the team didn't do anything good other than to enrich themselves. So the best way is building yours from the scratch while ensuring it survives against all odds.

the first is who are you? Are you the CEO? or are you the rich who will buy the crypto currency project? if the CEO of the project disappears then the development of the project will die, if their CEO sells the project maybe we can hope, but a good project is a roadmap that is always run

Be careful about these projects. Don't take a burden to your head later you will die to carry this kind of project. There are lots of fraudulent party besides these projects and if you want to involve it, they will welcome you but when you invest your money they will cutoff. So play with a unique project so that you may gainer next.

Be happy.

I am not seeing any big future for doing so. Because, it would be too hard for anyone to regain faith from this crypto community after one particular project had lost its confidence. Only when a project is capable of proving all the problems from devs and management team, I guess it would be impossible for moving toward success. I guess instead of re-working on a project, you may simply copy a project and may launch as your own new project. Because, multiple projects on similar concepts are not a new trend in this crypto space.

I guess people will not believe into old projects as devs may trick this community like showing as all new team but the same old team might be hiding themselves. Do you have any specific reason for restarting a dead project? I guess you are taking too much of risks rather than starting your own new one.

In the past I found some kind of service offered which is to bring back the dead project but it seems they are buying the projects and then bring it back to live but I never saw any project become successful in that way so it doesn't worth trying it.


The process is simple you need to create demand again for your project for that you may need investors pouring lot of money into it.

You might be thinking that by doing that is you gonna have the upper hand because from the start you already bought a huge amount of that Altcoin. Now I tell you this, that you will be facing a major problem here because you don't have a way to do that unless you are holding thousands of bitcoin or ETH to buy some of that Altcoin to increase its price in the market. Nevertheless, you will only have a little time to do that because when the holders saw the price spike they will flock to sold and dump all of their tokens.

I think that you can´t do nothing, why would someone do a job for someone else. Team left the project mainly because they failed to develop something worthy. They take money and gone and if you are thinking that the coin/token is decentralized and you can edit it / fix it, you can´t, this differs from Bitcoin, you can participate on Bitcoin development, but in most cases you can´t participate on altcoins development.  ;)

Why? Of all you want to achieve, why will you choose dead altcoin? As you've mentioned, it's DEAD. Whatever be the reason for that coin to be dead like abandoning, left behind, useless protocol, no use in crypto market or worst, created to scam people. Will you still go for it?
 
 I advice you to just create new project and make those cause of dead altcoins be an inspiration not to make same mistakes as they did. Since you will still gonna exert an effort reproducing or reviving that dead coin, probably you can start a new project instead.

You certainly need to contact the project creator or CEO, because we don't know without contacting and talking to them about the continuation of the project, and you also have to find as much information as possible about the project before participating in it, otherwise, the results of your hard work will be in vain without results

If you are interested in continuing to make your own road map, the first step is to communicate with Team  Project Management Team  position handles this section. Discuss and peel until after you make a decision and make a commitment to cooperate between you and them according to your plan.

One more thing ... Your capital strength also determines your placement as an investor

What is dead is dead. Why waste your time trying to revive what is dead when you can actually come up with better innovation. Even if you succeeded in bringing up the dead project, it will be a challenge getting the community to support such a project again after the disappointment.

This make more sense else you will have to market a lot spent a good amount of money on various advertisement and make people aware and also make you believe that this time what are the differences compared to before and give them some guarantee as well that it will be successful and will get better profits as well. Else people will not be ready to accept it.

Literally "beating a dead horse". You should spend your efforts on creating a new coin instead take over someone's failure. There is a good reason why it was a dead coin and try to revive it could leading to more hassle than it worth.

If the project is already dead, it's best to forget it and create a new project. The project of death makes many investors lose, so if you revive it, surely no one will trust and invest in it. People will think you are trying to scam them again

You could get in touch with the current team that is running it? I mean if the team is basically given up on the coin and it is dead, you could basically take over the whole team. But, the better version is not to go with the dead ones but the alive ones that have small pulse.

In those ones you could talk with the team, tell them you have some ideas that you want to do and tell them you are expecting nothing but just putting your effort, which is free considering you are not spending money but valuable considering your time could otherwise worth money if you spend somewhere else. That way you get into a team, do something to revive, and if you are good you will be asked to continue and that will worth money and you will get a bigger influence in that team eventually if you keep making the coin better and they will be afraid to lose you because without you they were almost dead.

If a project already death then never possible restart because old investors already leave and new investors never believe in your restart project. For the better thinking create new coin with very fast developing plans within IEO popular exchange. So it is impossible to preserve the old death project in a new way right just time spend.

If you see a great prospect on the project as for me no issue except the project was created solely for the purpose of scam or for defraud. Sometimes last year, I saw a new project which I participated some years back and was abandoned for some reason. He approached the team and there was a green light for him to push the project to those who we called investors and toll date, the project is doing well.

It wouldn't be dead if it has potential in the first place. There could be an angry investor to that old project and not to mention some bounty hunters who had participated but not profiting from it. It will still be a battle for the new developers but what he could just copy the idea of the project but use a different name for it. Creating a ERC token is easy after all.

I don't think its a good idea to revive an old coin/token, its best forgotten and create a new one. A fresh start would be better.

Reviving altcoin from dead is the riskiest one since it is hard to gain back confidence of people. Maybe perhaps "rebranding" it would work but just giving the dead coin a push without changing anything would only lead to loss of time and money as others said here. There are lot of projects that rebranded themselves but I am not aware of any project doing after change of team but since the old name and idea would probably give investors the same idea, it is best to rebrand the project and introduce with the project with some improvements in it.

I will strongly suggest you don't. Most of these projects already have a bad reputation with some of them defrauding investors and running away. Would you decide to take up such a project, you will most likely be faced with scam accusations leading to a bad investment and ultimately closure. If you must, you need to rebuild that reputation first, change the brand name and make huge partnerships with largely recognized and major players in the industry. This should bring back a bit of confidence and you can then build up from there.

In order to reanimate an abandoned project, there must be a good reason. But you should know that it will not be cheaper for you than creating a new project from the very beginning. And in addition, if you want to do it yourself, then your desire will not be enough, it requires a lot of money to implement it.

What people look for most times, is not how long a project has been in existence, but if they are ready to deliver what they promised. So many projects you see these days wake up from slumber and are back to life is because they already have their products.
You can just speak with the on how it can be done. The product should be made ready and proper marketing should be put in place. They should also launch on an exchange with good volume.

I agree with the commentators above. I also think you need to talk to the developers. This is first and foremost. Secondly, you should not rely on the success of the project prematurely. Most of them just died without success.

I do not understand why you should continue the development of altcoins that are already dead, there are no benefits. Better to
invest in altcoins the potential, more profitable in my opinion. Don't waste the capital we have. Or we can also make our own coins
instead forward dead altcoins. But the choice is yours, if indeed you are sure you want to continue the development of dead altcoins.
Immediately contact the Altcoins developer team.

It was not a good idea to restart the dead project first of all the impression on the project is not good anymore then if you are going to restart it it will be look scam so stay away on any abandoned project it will not help you to became successful better start new project that's the best idea that you will have.

Developing a coin is a waste of time, you're extremely unlikely to create a coin that would be able to compete with any of the top coins, they are way too far ahead already. And why revive a dead coin - it died for a reason, it wasn't useful to anyone. If you really want to make a coin, better fork some of the existing ones, you'll have higher chances to attract users, because some would like to claim forked coins. But still, it will just be another shitcoin. Just because it's easy to make a coin doesn't mean that everyone should.

That is my thinking. Creating a coin so easily can also know it becomes a shitcoin. We should only use existing platforms like ERC-20 or in the future will be ConfluxChain (CFX). Do you know anything about CFX? I think it is a very good project because the working team is experienced doctoral professors. It is impressive that their working team is mostly professors and doctors. And those who have worked for major exchanges in the market.

The best suggestion is you should not. Even though there are cases that some projects have died due to lack of funds but have a very good potential concept, these are rare cases. Maybe this is true but not all are something like that in some situation. Maybe 1/10 projects will be is an estimation for it to be like that.

Name projects that have been dead horse then suddenly reactivated again and so far got success? I know there are but I cant remembered so many. Investors likely to check hows the history of certain project and they also consider why it should be revived. I remembered coti project is already an old project before it was not so good but since they have been launched or joined community voting and kucoin spotlight they have back again. But the revival is not something out of thin air.

i dont know that its possible to fork any coin owned by someone else . i thought only owners of that coin can only fork it   .

and you said creating a coin is a bad idea , maybe he already knew that and thats why he only decide to revive a coin but still you said reviving a coin is still a bad idea  but it died not because its a bad project but maybe because team are lazy or busy or maybe lack of funding to continue it so still possible to revive it if the guy can supply the necesary needs .

I did not see anyone recommend this before so I will share. They used to be this project called Coin Janitor. And they did exactly what you are asking. They went around dead projects or inactive devs, and offered to buy out the coin and continue development. They actually did many before but I do not know if they are still around,,, ask them: https://www.coinjanitor.io/

It is really a waste of time, the project is dead and makes many investors lose money. If you continue to develop the project, no one will invest in it. And that development is completely pointless

Don't do it, this is completely waste of time and energy, it's very easy to build new tokens today, why don't you learn how to use ethereum ERC20 smart contract? It's better to do this than wasting time on something that's already dead

Of course you can fork any coin you want, how do you think Bcash and other forks came to existence?

As for reviving coins, there really is no such thing as "good project" in crypto space, there are thousands of coins out there and you can count on one hand all the coins that have some fundamental value. The rest are scamcoins/shitcoins, period. And if you look at good coins - like Bitcoin, ETH, XMR, you will notice that they have something similar - they are all developed by a big open-source community with hundreds of contributors. A single person or a small team of hobby developers can't make a competitive coin these days.

I have hundreds of dead altcoins in my ethereum wallet that I got from bounty campaigns and airdrops. It is the risk when you are in this field, from thousands of project only few survive and change the world.  ;)

I don't understand the point in trying to revive a dead project. Why do you want to carry on with the past luggage? A much better idea may be to start from the scratch. You are putting so much effort, and therefore you deserve a healthy amount of coins or tokens as premine for yourself. That is not possible in case you want to revive an old project. Let the skeletons remain in the closet. I would recommend staring from the scratch.

If you want to reanimate an existing but abandoned project, then it is obvious that the main thing you need for this is resources.
First of all, money, the more the better. Find a room, find the chapters of the project, redeem rights, organize work according to a new scheme, swap coins if necessary.
I don’t understand why you need this, because you can create your own project with such resources.

The project can still be work upon and be rivive again back to life like others. We have seen  projects that have failed in the past and the team abandoned for another, but later came back to the limelight of cryptocurrency. Many dead projects came back; alive back in 2017 and where made alive till date. Let encourage OP to get into the project and make it see like others. Its not good to be discouraged.

You can do it but will not be easy since the hardest thing is able to communicate the right person in charge of the dead coin and convince them to allow you to take over their coin. Even then, I think you shouldn't do it because there are all kinds of problems from a dead coin to sort out before moving on to continue to develop it.

It will never help the coin since when the coin has become a dead coin especially for the exit scam coin and it's impossible for a new developer to revive the coin or build the reputation for such coin again.
I never saw any successful new developers revive the dead coin and most of these coins were dead and it will never come back again.

The only truth is that, you will only end up lossing your money. I think the questions you should be asking yourself before coming up with this idea is, If truly it is a potential project why aren't the team working on it but giving up? Why did they exit scam? Why is the token price seriously down? The answer to these questions will make you understand that, they aren't potential projects and the team only did what they had to do so as to lay hands on money. My humble suggestion is, forget about this idea because you will likely regret it but instead go and invest in Bitcoin.

it would really be challenging on your part even if you have the marketing expertise.

its about building reputation that matters a lot in crypto and if that had been broken in the past, it would be hard to piece together the community abandoned. its easy to just create one and do the campaign to have a community of your own again. i haven't really seen a project come to life again after being dead.

It's useless to that if the project scam a lot of people then you will also have a bad reputation but why not do a fresh start and then just adopt the idea, or do a fork so many people are doing that, I have not known any dead project that comes back, so don't be the first one.

A project that's dead or turn shit means it's reputation is ruined, reviving such project won't do you any good, you are only wasting your precious time, better work on something that will give you good reputation, many have tried this before and nothing came out of it

In my opinion, rather than taking over a dead project, usually money from the sale of tokens is no longer left, it's better to make a new project and create new tokens or coins. The money from the sale of the new token can be used as capital to start a new one with a more experienced team

Some think its a bad step to revive dead project, I dont feel the same. Most of the project came with a good idea but bad process. Have seen a lot of revive eg internet of coin now Hybrix. You can start with slight change of name and team followed by great advert. You can also try small funding by investors but I think token management will be important and exchange listing will help traction.

Yes, but don't do it.Why you really want to bring value to a dead project? Its just the waste of time and money in my opinion.If you are a part of that project then you have to do it or just don't.

It's a high risk, friend, the death of the project, of course there are problems that occur in it that cannot be solved by the previous developer. it's good to form a new team that is experienced and form a new project rather than having to evoke something that has been dumped.

Lets keep things straight. If you are able to continue development of a dead project this means that also have the ability to create a new project yourself.
Now lets consider that you are trying to start a dead project, you will first have to find why the project was dead.

The project would have been dead either because it didn't receive good response from the investors or the project team would not have been able to develop the project. In both cases the chances are slim that the restarted project would get good response from the community because investors generally don't look back on projects which they have ignored, they always want something new.

First, check if the previous owner is still active and if he will let you take over the project for some stake in the project. If he doesn't agree then you can always fork the project but that's a bit risky IMO.

Don't bother to, it's a waste of time, investors will still remember a project that was once dead, there won't be any demand for such project without getting investors worry, and some projects failed due to exit scam or pump and dump, it's wise to start building your own Project

Basically, (no pun intended) if the OP can look into creating gaming app around the dead coin, online payment options, build work and earn tasks (like ETN is doing) on its wallet app, then I think it should attract investors. Otherwise, doing moribund stuff all in the name of programming will not make a difference in reviving the project.

Well, basing on the many experiences by people who invest in projects in the past, it is best to create a new coin and create a new project instead of reviving an old one. For all practical purposes it is a waste of time and people who have invested on a failed project will not forget their experiences and may try to sabotage it by spreading news of their experience with the old coin. So technically yes you can speak to the owner of the project and revive it, but no, don't do it. It will just waste the money that should have been used at more productive NEW projects.

It was quite painful when we saw the potential of the project but it turned out that the team was just crap and wanted to find money quickly and leave. It's hard to return it, talking to them is a waste of time because only a few will listen to the input. It's better to look for other projects that are better

I wouldn't suggest you to try to revive a coin. If you like the idea of a project, is better to invest your resources in developing the idea with a new face instead of trying to revive something that has already a bad taste for many people, and if it wasn't a popular coin, what's even the point to revive something that wasn't good to begin with.

to be able to see that the project has potential or not is very difficult but maybe there are still some ways that can help you with the way you should be able to participate in coin offers at a trusted exchange place such as binance, because a trusted exchange place can be used as collateral for you.

That's a risky gamble because for a coin to be as good as dead, then it has lost its traction or probably ran into some problems like exit scam. There are many of them, so before you venture into that, ensure it doesn't have any red flag on financial misappropriation. And for you to pull that off, you definitely have to rebrand the project, get some good backings, create buzz about it, develop innovative products or give it new use cases that will convince new investors. This will definitely cost you a lot of money and time.

So the best advice I can give is if you have the resources and technical know-how on developing blockchain-based projects, why don't you build yours rather than wasting money buying a dead project which may not resurrect again?

Just my opinion!

Talking to the team will not work. Although old ideas won't work with the new world, most of the time. By investing or becoming a member of a projects team could be work. Dead altcoins means there are some mistakes, probably you know it. I'm against old projects and copying ideas. Make your own project or you can take experience from your favorite projects.

Why you want to revived a project that was already dead? You think will believe on the project even if you already revived it? It has a bad impression to all the investor so I will advice that don't revived a project that was already dead just create a new project if you want to have a project it was good to start a new than to revived the dead one.

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It's been 5 months and nobody's answered his question.

Step 1 - Download their whitepaper and their website and node's source code.
Step 2 - Do a "find and replace" from their name to your name. Cite their whitepaper in your whitepaper and license.
Step 3 - Make new genesis block.
Step 4 - Compile and run node.
Step 5 - Launch website.
Step 6 - List it on an exchange and wait for the cash to start rolling in.  ;D

Don't waste your time in that kind of projects just move on to the next and maybe you'll be in to get a good one.

Add some tempting offers and try to catch top exchange with reduce the supply for the new currency and set the price higher than before. I think death coins can be re-marketed but scam schemes can never come back in a new way.

In my opinion, better create a new project to develop rather than to restart dead altcoin. Why? It's best to create unique ideas in your project that has real usage in a ways that it could attract the investors. Also a new project could bring good impression to the users or investors. Think of the best that your project will be successful.

Abandoned projects got abandoned for a reason, you need to find that out first, the old owner might have used the coin for pump and dump or scam investors, if this is the case then there is no reputations let for such project, better to ignore and build yours from ground up

The next project must also be examined first, do not immediately make choices if we do not know the background of the new projects at this time, because at this time there are not many successful projects, even if some do not last long.

This is great suggestion. Ive noticed a lot of dead project returning and some of them have succesfully manage to go back. Like coti, this one I thought is long dead project but now due to defi hype its one of the project that performance is highly good and comparable to new projects. I dont know about the other shitcoin but this will be a tempting method for scammer reviving their old failure one.

A dead project is very hard to bring back everyone's trust and I have never seen a dead project come back to life either. if you do have funds and a team you should create a new project with the concept you want

You might end up failing too, most of the dead project had been left by their investors already. It's difficult to gain investors' trust once a coin already died. This might even cost you a lot of money to revive a project since you will have to shoulder all the cost for the development and even pay the team for using their concept and idea. It would be better if you will create your own project and your own team.

Most important is that you gather a good team, ready to work to develop the idea from the start. If you have some capital it will make everything better, but I think that rising a project from the start to the end can be
achieved with sale, IEO or ICO, so without starting capital, but the team should be prepared for waiting before they start earning some money from that.

First of all, it all depends on the type of the project you're having interest in whether it's an altcoin (Coin/Token) or a cryptocurrency related platform as the things may have bigger variations. If it's a coin or a token then you must get in touch with the old owners to get the code or maybe you need to take a look in Github whether the code is clean and valid or not, i think you should make the same steps for the coins and try to open a new or get acces to the telegram, discord and the other social media channels of the coin as an Admin not a normal user. If the project is a platform then you must get in touch with the old owners in order to backup or get access to the platform admin control panel, database, etc.
It's not easy but it's possible, you just need some luck on your side and lots of hard work in order to achieve a success.

Still, I can't believe some of my favorite projects were dead, only because of the dead market. Anyone can be interested in any of these projects. I don't think we can start developing any of these projects without the permission of the main team members. Because the projects development right, if you believe in the good future of these projects.

I think you could look for a dead project which code is open source and on github.
Then you can just copy the code and start from there.
But of course you would technically making a fork then and not a real restart, for that you would need to contact the team of the dead coin first i guess.

for you to be able to start it, first you need to go to the community especially to those who hold this coin. if there are so many members then you can start talking to them about what you will gonna with the project. some projects are not worth continuing if they are dead and the dev team abandons them just right after they sold their coins. people might think that it is going to be the same. so just braced your self  ;D

A fork is highly recommended many members are also recommending it so you will have the whole supply and swap those who invested in the old projects you need to send the coins in place for the old one so you can enjoy their support, or else they will FUDD your new coin.

There is no reason to restart a dead coin because people have already lost the trust in that coin. If you want to develop a coin, it is better that you start with a fresh coin and gain the trust. No one will be investing in the dead coin and risk their money, even though a new team have taken over the project.

The best thing to do is to talk to the owner of the project, gather more information as regards the project, funds required, reasons for abandoning and a way forward to develop the project.

Of course those projects are always looking for people to help the project go up, if you have enough requirements then of course you can, first contact the seo of that project and prove you are capable.

Surprised to see so many new replies. I fail to understand the logic behind any such move. Why should anyone revive a dead coin? Any potential gains are going to be minimal (unless he is able to accumulate the vast majority of the circulating supply). In 99.99% of the cases, the best thing to do is to start a new project, which would give a considerable pre-mine to the team and the promoters.

True, even if he able to accumulate the coin when it was nearly dead and try to revive to maximize his gain in case the project survived and revived, I sure most new investors don't like to be in someone's coin where he already takes the majority of the circulating supply. Really, just take that dead coin's ideas or source codes and make a new coin on your own.

I think altcoins that are dead can't come back because the reputation is very much in the eyes of investors if altcoins die being able to come back to life, of course there are many risks when investing in it

Agree, when we talk about the return of dead altcoins, their chances of surviving are too low when they turned down the community once and of course, in this investment world, once is more than enough to appear in public again, investors will have doubts as to why they came back when they hugged their money and went missing for a long time. Besides, new altcoins are always appearing, the community welcomes this and if you want to start, get rid of the old altcoin and get ready for a new project.

the only one chance for dead altcoins to return to their previous levels and get back investor confidence is to do strong technical development of the project and show activity

You can speak to the developer and their previous team and work together to get this done. In my personal view, you should create your own instead of trying to recreate what was already dead. You won't know what kind of baggage it carries with it. I have seen people do it in the past but very rarely have they succeeded.. However, if you want to do it anyway make sure you pay attention to why it was dead and if there is still community support for it. Without support it'll be dead again and your work will be wasted.

Perhaps that is the only way to regain investors' confidence. First they need to get the price back up and then roll out new updates, which will attract the interest of investors.

it does not necessarily take a long time. I see how the alt season begins and many projects that have been at the bottom for several years have begun active growth.

In fact, it is very difficult to revive a project, it is easier to create a new one.
After all, you have to do a rebranding, a new marketing campaign, to gather a community that already considers the project forgotten, plus people will have a residue from the past failure. In order to take such risks, you need to have a very good background for the project, otherwise it is easier to create something new based on the old one.

Where is the OP now? After creating this thread, he is gone. I hope he read some of the good insights here and not revive an old crap project. Better create a new one and really give purpose to his project. And not just another crap project that will be dead soon. If he can't sustain its development, better not create another one, at least one less crap project here.

If that was having a very bad reputation and it's impossible to recover it again. You must know those who have been growing up again were not yet scam projects. that means if when they bring a good result or update for the investors and they can easily growing up.

It would be better if you forget about that idea and rather use the strength to study on potential coins and/or tokens you can trade, invest or hold for long; this is what I see as a good investment than looking for a way to revive dead altcoins which might be probably abandoned because of scam, pump and dump, negligence from the team and so on.
No matter how you see it, no matter the idea you think you will bring in that will revive the dead altcoin, you will only but end up wasting your precious time and losing your funds.

it's hard to revive them. you better develop a new one. dead altcoins are just a shitcoins, even if you have a good team and some brilliant ideas for it. i think the dead altcoin projects is hard to get some interest from people since they don't trust those altcoins anymore. worthless to do.

Its only possible if that coins they make is give their investors large gain before , even they get that they will still think if the owner can improve the coins uses and other improvement they are planning they need to know it before you can have the trust of old investors. If its came from proven scam project its better to not revive that coins and make your own instead if you want to have different result.

it's not a good idea, usually dead projects have been abandoned by the developers and investors. it is often abandoned because it does not have the opportunity to continue to develop in the future. If you are a developer and have a big budget then it is far better to start over and not restart a dead project.

Not all coins can be revive because some left a bad impact on investors mind before going down, some coins are dead because they are pump and dump projects and some are complete Ponzi, do not waste time on such Projects and infact it will be better to build yours from scratch

   I believe that everything is possible! With hard work, sacrifice, capital, skills, experience, a good and experienced
people in your team. If you have what it takes you can do anything you plan to do, but as I said only if you have
what's necessary, and to be able to endure even when hard times comes, when you face with obstacles on your
way, and there will be obstacles and hard times.

I don't think you can do that alone, you need a team and a promoter so that the dead coins can come back to life. Yes you need to talk to the CEO, maybe you will be asked to make up for all losses, are you ready for that? Because I don't think the CEO will give away their tokens for free to you.

the first thing you need to do is fund the project. that's one possible way to keep a project going or succeeding in the marketplace. Generally, projects stop due to lack of funds or do not meet targets for further development.

You want to keep the development going for an already dead or soon to be? Don't, just don't. There are plenty of reasons why coin dead and if you are an outsider, you won't know so don't try to invest your time, money into a dead coin. It is a fool's errand.

Many a times there are good altcoins that are dead without any valid reason, the project was good, the developers were also good, maybe the reason can be the lack of funds for continuing the project or lack of community support or it can be that the coin wasn't listed on any exchange and hence died. If the coin was genuinely good then a good investor can really make the coin do wonders if the reason for abandoning was lack of funds for the developers, I guess the source codes available on the github or maybe on the forum announcement can do the work for acquiring the necessary files for restarting the project.

It's harder than creating a new one you will trace who holds the most number of coins, you will set up another community and make them trust the project again if you are creating a new one things will be much easier, the only issue here is the duplication so you have to make a disclaimer and make the community understand your intention.

To restart a project is like starting over with a project. It will take a lot of funding and patience. How you can convince the community of a project that you will continue to be successful in is what matters. And most of all, do exchanges allow your crypto to be listed on it?

actually developing a dead project is very risky because it is not easy to restore the confidence of investors who have invested in the project, but if you still want it then you can discuss it with the CEO of the project.

I think reactivating a dead project is even more difficult then having a new project, because investors lost their faith in the coin. To make it into an active altcoin is a very difficult task and will require a lot of time and probably money too. You will need to give some form of incentive for the existing coin holders to start trading again. And you will have to pay some guys to promote your coin. This forum is definitely a good start to attract new investors. One good thing of a dead coin is that the price should be fairly low for new people to start investing.

It could be great idea or very bad idea. Check project past works properly, why failed. Contact CEO, Adviser etc.

It's just a matter of marketing and attracting people. The most important part of a project is still the source code, which will require a lot of work to rework the blockchain. This work takes a lot of effort and takes a long time. There are so many projects already on the market now and how to compete with them without a strong team with many creative ideas. I think the current crypto market is so rich and diverse, it is difficult to start over from an outNo need to advertise too much, as long as the project is convincing enough, people will actually come and invest.ated project.

The advantage in reviving a project, rather than starting again from the scratch is that the infrastructure is already available and very little work needs to be done. In some cases, the development may be almost completed. And there are instances in which good projects failed, because of no fault of their own. Who knows? In such instances it may be worthwhile to revive the project and see how it goes.

Even if you are planning to revive a failing company it is hard to resume them successfully as you need to take care of the debt they made, the base was a failure and so they were not able to make any profit and when it comes to dead altcoin projects the infrastructure would be virtually none and it is better to let go of that rather than trying to revive the project as you cannot convince any investor to investor in a failed project, unless you have enough capital to mess around it is always better to start from scratch.

Reviving a dead project is a quest I will not support anyone to embark on. The negativity attached to any dead project outweighs the positive side. Funding might not be the issue for you to revive one, but gaining the trust of investors, the community and lots of others who got rekt while supporting the project. And trust me, a lot of bag holders will be waiting for you to make it work so that they can dump their bags on you and move on. If not totally impossible, it won't be easy to revive any dead project.

For dead altcoins, the restart will be harder. If the project once took the popularity and it suddenly died, there's almost no coming back from it. But we want to hear it from you op if what happened to this discussion or to the project that you are interested in.
You have started a thread and for sure that you are eyeing for a project that you think has the potential. It's just a matter of management in your eyes.

Bringing back dead altcoins would mean a very hard task since you will be working again in a long process and yet no assurance if it will end sucessfully. I'd rather advise you to start a new and potential project and build trust on the investors because it might have bigger chances to make you profitable in the end rather than managing a project that has been abandoned already because of some serious issues.

I think you need to contact the developers of the coin, they are the one who know best about the coin.
But why do you want to continue the development of the coin and not make a new coin ?
You will have to announce it to the existing community if you want to restart the noin.

I believe there are a handful of dead altcoins that came back to life after 1 or 2 years. I’ve seen some of them doing that, surprising their community with the latest digest, new roadmap and future plans, etc. If you honestly believe that a dead altcoin would be brought back to life, try to come up with a new plan to regain the excitement of the community by coming up with new partnerships, strategies, etc.

Fixing something always harder than making it from a scratch, to be honest. A dead coin will have many problems exist and will take a huge of developer's time to address those matter. I really don't get it why would anyone want to restart a dead coin? If you like the coin, just copy it like 'with poker and blackjack' moto.

It depends on the damage if the damage is only lite will you start all over again ? No because that takes time   . Op is not alone with this idea because i saw someone before that is talking similar thing .

There are really people that loves to revive older or dead projects , why not have them a chance ? they are more familiar with it than those who are newly built .

Despite the fact that it's not reasonable for one to continue from a dead altcoin project, because it would take almost same effort to start the process of a new one. One obviously needs to start by having a discussion and agreement with the dead project team or developer, the developer has to be carried along with progress and this could be tasking for the resuscitating developer.

Maybe you need to read about all of their presented information in their website, their ANN thread (if possible), their Bounty Campaign thread (if still posted), their Whitepaper, and their list of Managers and Creators. You should also talk to their Bounty Manager since that manager probably might have a connection with the Project Creators. Its actually nice to see somebody taking interest to revive dead Alternate Coins since creating a new one is harder.

Sorry, but the nature of the projects back in the current community is just the scammers starting their strategy, they understand that when they come back, we will be confused between believing and disbelieving them, of course, with a little initial benefit, they can deceive us again the way they did, hope and then disappoint. Honestly, I wouldn't encourage anyone to inspire others with such projects, this community has many better projects, these projects need a chance more than the dead altcoins

If you hold the altcoins dead, you will be able to do nothing but sell them cheap,
or you can just let it go, and buy good altcoins on the exchange, you must to be understand

Don't, I haven't seen a dead project that was revived and do better, if always fail, this is crypto space for crying out loud, once a project failed it's gone, no one will trust such project again, it's better to spend your time and energy on your own project