List of all dead coins

A dead coin is a cryptocurrency that has been abandoned or has failed. The project no longer has active development, the official website is offline or redirects somewhere else, trading volume has dried up, and the community behind it has moved on. The token may still technically exist on a blockchain, but for all practical purposes it is no longer a living project.

Dead coins are a normal part of the crypto market. Thousands of coins and tokens have launched since Bitcoin in 2009, and many never found real users, ran out of funding, or were scams from the start. This page lists the coins we have flagged as dead, so you can check whether a project you are researching is still alive. To explore projects that are still active, browse our full cryptocurrency list.

Coins die for many reasons, and most cases fall into a few buckets:

• Scams and rug pulls: the founders raise money, then disappear with the funds and abandon the project.
• Abandoned projects: the team loses interest or funding, and development simply stops.
• Failed technology: the product never works as promised, or a better competitor takes its place.
• Exchange delistings: when exchanges remove a coin, liquidity and visibility collapse.
• Dried-up liquidity: with no buyers or sellers left, the market for the coin effectively disappears.

In a bull market, hundreds of new tokens launch every week, and only a small share survive the next downturn. Understanding why coins die helps you spot the warning signs early.

We flag a coin as dead mainly by checking the health of its official website. Our automated checks visit the site of each project on a regular schedule and look for clear signs that it is no longer maintained:

• The website is fully offline and returns an error.
• The domain redirects to an unrelated site, a parking page, or a different business.
• The domain has expired or is now for sale.

When a site fails these checks, we record the date it went offline and mark the coin as dead. The Website Status and Date Offline columns in the table above show the result. If you believe a coin is flagged incorrectly, open its coin page and use the "update data" link in the top bar to let us know.

Not every struggling coin is truly dead, and the labels are worth separating:

• Dead: the project is abandoned, the website is gone, and there is no path back. This is the list on this page.
• Inactive: development has slowed or paused, but the site and community still exist. An inactive coin can recover.
• Delisted: the coin was removed from one or more exchanges. A delisting hurts liquidity, but the project itself may still be active.

A coin can be delisted yet still alive, or active on-chain yet effectively dead because no one uses it. We focus on the clearest, most objective signal we can measure: whether the official website is still online.

Revivals happen, but they are rare. Occasionally a new team adopts an abandoned project, relaunches the website, and rebuilds the community, and a coin that looked dead returns to active development. More often, though, a dead coin stays dead, and its token trends toward zero value.

If you hold a coin that appears on this list, treat it as high risk. Check whether there is any recent, credible development activity before assuming a comeback. For most dead coins, the realistic outcome is that they remain worthless. To compare them with projects that are still live, see our full coin list.