{
  "id": 18540249,
  "title": "Nearly two-thirds of 2021’s top 100 altcoins have lost more than 90%, CoinMarketCap data shows",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/06/nearly-two-thirds-of-2021s-top-100-altcoins-have-lost-more-than-90",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-11-06T17:14:18.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Fortune",
    "slug": "fortune",
    "url": "https://fortune.com/2026/11/06/altcoins-lost-90-percent-coinmarketcap-data/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Nearly two-thirds of the top 100 altcoins from 2021 have lost more than 90% of their value, according to CoinMarketCap research. This decline occurred despite those projects appearing as long-term investments with functioning networks and ambitious roadmaps. Even Bitcoin only managed a 30% increase over the same period. Good projects failed to consistently make good investments, as even strong teams, useful technology and growing networks didn't guarantee the token would capture the economic value being created.",
  "summary": "Research CoinMarketCap shared with Fortune shows the median losing altcoin issued about 50% more tokens while the market cut its value by 95%.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}