🚨 Crypto Awareness: Why 2025 Feels Different (and how to avoid losing money) 🚨
Quick headline: The crypto market today is vastly larger in token count than earlier bull runs. That means capital is spread much thinner — and that increases the risk of rug pulls, zero-liquidity tokens, and high losses for retail buyers. Do not FOMO. Read this, share it, and protect your community.
What the data shows (real-time sources)
• 2017 / 2018: There were under 10,000 tokens and total crypto market cap peaked around $800–$836 billion. This was a much smaller token universe. 
• 2021: Token count jumped toward ~100k, and the total crypto market cap briefly hit $3 trillion (November 2021). Bitcoin’s market cap peaked near $1.28T. 
• 2025 (now): The number of created tokens has exploded (reports estimate tens of millions of created tokens, with ~36–37 million cited by recent analyses), though only a fraction are actively tracked (~9–20k on major trackers). The total market cap in 2025 has been hovering around $3.8T–$4.1T at times. This makes the market extremely crowded. 
Why this matters — the danger in plain words
• In 2017, a few thousand tokens meant liquidity and capital were concentrated — easier for top tokens to pump.
• In 2025, tens of millions of tokens mean the same pile of capital must be spread across far more projects. That increases:
• Liquidity risk (you can’t sell without huge slippage),
• Price manipulation and rug-pull risk (low-liquidity tokens are easy to drain), and
• Noise vs signal — real projects get drowned by copycats and memecoins. 
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