# @sterlingcrispin: Low liquidity AMM coins are shitcoins regardless of branding

Source: https://x.com/sterlingcrispin/status/1949128196890206385
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/sterlingcrispin-Low-liquidity-AMM-coins-are-shitcoins-regardless-of-branding?index=0x68870255708a71ab83a403278306b3ebb704b2a392d36b1354553d57dcfc7766e34e8e45
Submitted by tim on 2025-07-28 UTC, 21 upvotes, 1 comment

## Summary

Sterling Crispin argues that low-liquidity coins on automated market makers with exponential price curves are shitcoins regardless of whether they are branded as Creator Coins, Culture Tokens, Music Tokens, AI Tokens or Memecoins. He says these tokens form a zero-sum game in which retail buyers get picked off by snipers, bundlers, coordinated pump-and-dumps and autonomous trading bots. He states that 99.99999% of such tokens go to zero quickly, and that any that survive more than a year are rare exceptions. He directs the critique at launchpads that repeat the same product and at buyers who expect their token to be different.

## Article

Low liquidity coins on automated market makers with exponential price curves are shitcoins.

You can call them Creator Coins,  Culture Tokens, Internet Capital Markets, Music Tokens, AI Tokens, or Memecoins, but it won't change the toxic fundamentals.

It's a zero sum PvP game of musical chairs. Nobody leaves with more than they came with unless someone else is losing. And retail gets rinsed by snipers, bundlers, coordinated pump and dumps, FNF groups, and industrial scale autonomous trading bots. 

Repeatedly pretending you don't know that is disingenuous, delusional and at best naive for anyone who's been in crypto for more than a year to suggest otherwise. 

You can't just rename "minting dogshit with no liquidity and putting it in a Uniswap pool" to Creator Coins and expect the outcome to be any different without at least trying to alter the tokenomics, or at least some kind of flywheel, to prevent the obvious outcome. 

99.99999% of tokens like this go to zero with haste, anything that survives for more than a year is an extremely rare exception to the rule.

I"m quoting Coop directly here, but really I'm talking to everyone making new token launchpads and shipping the same product over and over and over again promising different results. 

Also talking to anyone buying these coins and professing that, "Bro. I swear bro this time it's different. They're culture coins, creators bro. I swear bro, this time it's different. No no, there's an AI. You don't get it. The token is for a song and you're early to the song. No bro trust me. This is the future. It's not like literally every other coin with the exact same tokenomics. This time it's different bro. Buy my bags bro please. Please buy my bags. I am crying, pissing, and shitting in my pants bro trust me."

And to be clear, sometimes I like trading shitcoins. It's occasionally fun to light money on fire trying to hit a 20x. But I know what game I'm playing. And I'm not flooding the timeline trying to convince anyone it's not a toxic hypercasino hellscape.

## Comments

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