Are you still willing to invest in tokens that failed in 2025?

[Localhostspeed]

There are several altcoins that are still worth holding onto because they have long-standing, genuine use cases, such as Zcash, Litecoin, and Monero. I don’t believe they will die out; it’s just that the "hype effect" now takes hold much faster than in previous years, and capital has become diversified across a number of newer projects.

Some of the coins you mentioned were launched way back before 2020 yet they had one of the most surviving character than coins that were launched after 2020. You know what's interesting about some of the new coins that were launched after 2020, they almost had a market cap more than some of the coins that were launched then. After sometimes, they crashed and go back to shithole where they popped out from, that's shows that steady growth is better than fomo coins, they don't last long.

The altcoin bull run we never had is another challenge of most altcoins recent in the market. This makes it worrying how the market will be in the future. Bitcoin is the Only coin that is doing well and don't care about what alts are doing and as long as Eth remains the way it's struggling all these years and couldn't break all time high, the future of altcoins bull run will remain uncertain.

[Slow death]

I don’t invest in altcoins, as @pooya87 has already explained very well. Most people look at the price of an altcoin in a USDT-altcoin pair; since the price in such a pair benefits from Bitcoin’s own price movements, people get the impression that altcoins are rising or falling normally when, in reality, their value has been in decline for years. You only need to look at the BTC-altcoin pair to see this. In short, altcoins have been slowly dying for years. I don’t know how it’s possible that so many people haven’t realized this sooner. Personally, I only hold Bitcoin and trade Bitcoin.

[nelson4lov]

• Which tokens have you chosen for your portfolio to get ready for the 2029 bullrun?
• Will you continue investing in older projects that failed in the 2025 cycle or eliminate them completely?

For now, there hasn't been a lot of options on my radar, but HYPE token from Hyperliquid has been a personal favorite of mine in recent times. I fumbled my small stack some years ago but might be interested to get back in at a price that interests. I'm also on the lookout for more candidates, for now, there is none. Recent launches like Monad, Mega and the rest of them in this class do not interest me at all.

• In your opinion, which project has the ability to make a comeback in the next cycle despite past failures?

For comebacks, I'm assuming you mean which project has the potential to go back to its ATH. For me, I would stick to the best runners of most cycles such as BnB and SOL.

[Rengga Jati]

The altcoin bull run we never had is another challenge of most altcoins recent in the market. This makes it worrying how the market will be in the future. Bitcoin is the Only coin that is doing well and don't care about what alts are doing and as long as Eth remains the way it's struggling all these years and couldn't break all time high, the future of altcoins bull run will remain uncertain.

It is a big challenge for altcoin holders. The altcoin investment is no longer the same as in the past. So, it will be wise to reduce the capital in altcoins and prioritize the Bitcoin in our portfolio. I never invest in altcoins with huge money anymore and I only want to invest in top altcoins only. I don't expect much that we will have altcoin season anymore, but I believe some top altcoins still can increase well in the next bullrun season. ETH, BNB, SOL, and HYPE are some altcoins still rising well until now although we don't have altcoin season.

[goldkingcoiner]

A lot of people here are confusing tokens with coins. Tokens are built on top of an existing blockchain. Like Solana or Ethereum. But they are not their own coins. They are far more volatile and dangerous to invest into. A safer approach is investing into the coin which the tokens are built on.

Solana seems to be the only altcoin that is worth investing in right now, but ETH and BNB are far more reliable when it comes to the token failure rate. The Solana blockchain is the fastest and cheapest option for creating tokens on, so it is a bit strange... Perhaps Solana has far more potential in the near future? If we compare the growth of the Eth blockchain and its tokens to the current Sol tokens, I think we may see a lot more investment-worthy token growth.

But I would still never invest in a token which failed or is considered failed by most of the community. No matter the blockchain.

[Marykeller]

It's not about investing in coins with the target of the 2029 altcoin season; it's about knowing when to buy and sell at moderate prices without having a surplus target price in mind

The problem I find in the market with investing and hodling coins is that you don't know which ones, except Bitcoin that can bring ROI and last long in the market without investors having losses from buying at a high price, only to have the price of the coin drop tremendously without getting close to its ATH in a few years.

Coins like ZEC, Polkadot, AAVE, and KuCoin hit their ATHs in 2021, and since then, they haven't come close to them(ATH). Anyone who's investing in altcoins in this regard is gambling with their money

[henmark]

It's not about investing in coins with the target of the 2029 altcoin season; it's about knowing when to buy and sell at moderate prices without having a surplus target price in mind

Each of us has our own preference. But the point is that we invest for a potential return. Crypto is still more than it. Crypto is also a currency and had some other utility. There are those that only treat them like that. So they may not care with the rate of the crypto at all.

The problem I find in the market with investing and hodling coins is that you don't know which ones,

Then just don't complicate things anymore mate. Problem solve!! . But in reality, we have platforms that records the performance of difference cryptos in this market. You know CMC and CoinGecko? You can go there and observe the pattern. And you can pick cryptos that you think can repeat some of its better history.

Coins like ZEC, Polkadot, AAVE, and KuCoin hit their ATHs in 2021, and since then, they haven't come close to them(ATH). Anyone who's investing in altcoins in this regard is gambling with their money

Not only the year is one of the biggest pump year but those projects are also a bit new back in time. We know that whenever there is new, there is still a hype. There are still alts that are also built to last a long time. One example would be is Ethereum.

[Oshio-man]

Some of the altcoins I invested is what I can afford to lose in altcoin,  I know it will be difficult to disappear from the market because they have strong team that will make the market to turn back for the benefits of their investors, I will still invest on altcoins that failed before because their team will not allow anything to happen than to prepare what will make investors to be happy and to stay with the altcoins for long term because every investors want to invest in a profitable altcoins in the market.

[2stout]

Help me here.  If the tokens failed in 2025, what's going to make them un-fail later?  For the time I've been in this space- longer than my Bitcoin talk account, 99.9% of tokens I've seen failed have never come back.  A dead cat bounce from a pump and dump doesn't count either, unless that's what you're looking for.

[ultrloa]

Help me here.  If the tokens failed in 2025, what's going to make them un-fail later?  For the time I've been in this space- longer than my Bitcoin talk account, 99.9% of tokens I've seen failed have never come back.  A dead cat bounce from a pump and dump doesn't count either, unless that's what you're looking for.

It continue to fail whatever reasons they shows.

Also I its really crazy decision to invest on dead tokens.

Because there's no sense at all to think about they can easily pump it.

Only those people fooling them and already placed their position will earn on possible hype they are bringing. Then normal investors like them will carry the weights and always on losing side, when they came late on the scene.

So best not to invest on failed tokens. Because they will end up losing their money when it fails again.

[asriloni]

Even so, I continue to track several potential older projects recently highlighted in discussions, such as Chainlink, NEAR, and PancakeSwap. Their underperformance in the 2025 cycle could very well represent a long-term accumulation phase to prepare for a major move in the 2029 cycle if targeted by whales. All definitive answers will likely require waiting a few more years to be fully confirmed.

Major move? It's all speculations created by people used the bitcoin 4 year cycle pump. There's no guarantee for another pump to happen. It's all because the market trend can happen anytime.

I'd like to know your opinion:

• Which tokens have you chosen for your portfolio to get ready for the 2029 bullrun?
• Will you continue investing in older projects that failed in the 2025 cycle or eliminate them completely?
• In your opinion, which project has the ability to make a comeback in the next cycle despite past failures?

1. Bluechip coin such as eth and btc are preferable unless the alt goes down to the its bottom like when btc was trading at 60k, then i'll enter the market.

2. Totally depending on what kind of utility, demand, supply, and project's future plan. It's not all of old projects are bad while it's not all of old projects are also good too.

3. Anything that can survive during the bearish market. It's obviously a project with active and consistent revenue.

However, your title needs to be changed. You mentioned token that exist for years, and they're not really failed during 2025 pump and dump.

[Lontor]

If your title already said FAILED why would anyone invest in that? Many coins will never go up again, even some big ones will never make a new all time high, things have changed drastically and the only hope we had is ruined, thanks to Trump and family.

Now I think it's better if Elizabeth Warren did all she planned to do, because there is no point allowing anyone to create coins and tokens out of thing air and make millions from it only to dump on all buyers.

Enough is enough, a failed token will never get a second chance, gone are the days where dead coins come back to life and all that happened because so many people still have hopes but today those hopes are dead.

[blek5000]

I wouldn't use the old ATH as the main reason to write a project off or to buy it back; I look for evidence that the product is still being used. A practical check is whether fees or recurring users hold up after incentives are removed, alongside the next year's token unlocks and treasury runway. If usage returns but the token has no clear way to capture that value, the network can improve while holders still lose ground. For me, an old project only earns a second look after those fundamentals improve for a few quarters, not just because its chart looks cheap.

[bangjoe]

If your title already said FAILED why would anyone invest in that? Many coins will never go up again, even some big ones will never make a new all time high, things have changed drastically and the only hope we had is ruined, thanks to Trump and family.

Now I think it's better if Elizabeth Warren did all she planned to do, because there is no point allowing anyone to create coins and tokens out of thing air and make millions from it only to dump on all buyers.

Enough is enough, a failed token will never get a second chance, gone are the days where dead coins come back to life and all that happened because so many people still have hopes but today those hopes are dead.

This should be a correction for all, but this flood of tokens will not be stopped because now it is very easy to create coins, the developers only need to hire influencers to market them and then they sell gradually, all of which pay for the needs of the ecosystem and their team when from the beginning it was planned to make money not about the technology that the community needs.

There is no second chance, now people prefer to create a new team and make it their own rather than buy the old project and then continue it, regarding Trump I agree with you but will not comment too much on that, we must be fully aware that the decision is in our own hands and it is difficult to accuse others of the fault of each personality.

[AVE5]

The general psychology of many participants right now is to ruthlessly eliminate previously failed tokens from their radar when constructing a portfolio for the 2029 cycle. comeback in the next cycle despite past failures?[/li][/list]

Is it true that there're enthusiasts that still tend to calculate the possessions of the AltCoins to bitcoin? I think bitcoin is the only coin that possesses that 4 year's events cycle which according to the halving also gives it that remarks.
AltCoins had only been a shadow of bitcoin that's why some says they imitates bitcoin and are dumped when they can't continue to pull sustainable values.
Some AltCoins actually resurrects after dead. When I see such projects resurfaces after some terms I usually count them hopeless.
Anyone investing in such AltCoins is also risking too high because they can go dead again anytime any day.
Although there're still some good reliable ones which I'll advice you do your research before investing on it.

[uneng]

Help me here.  If the tokens failed in 2025, what's going to make them un-fail later?  For the time I've been in this space- longer than my Bitcoin talk account, 99.9% of tokens I've seen failed have never come back.  A dead cat bounce from a pump and dump doesn't count either, unless that's what you're looking for.

A new bullish cycle in crypto market (thanks to Bitcoin) may resurrect some of failed projects from past years. It's not a guarantee, but it's a possibility, since the market as a whole is benefited from every Bitcoin's pumps.

In every cases, since there is still risk involved and since there are much better alternatives available in the market, it really makes no sense to invest in past failed projects. If there is still potential on them, it will be only due to ephemeral speculative and hype reasons.