When you hear inflation, the loss of purchasing power over time, often driven by excessive money supply. Also known as currency devaluation, it's not just about prices at the grocery store—it's baked into the design of many crypto projects that print endless tokens without real demand. In crypto, inflation isn't always obvious. Some tokens have no supply cap, others get flooded through poorly designed rewards, and some projects fake their success with inflated numbers to trick you into buying in.
Look at TVL manipulation, the practice of artificially boosting Total Value Locked metrics to make DeFi protocols look more successful than they are. Projects pump their TVL by lending tokens back and forth between wallets, creating the illusion of growth. Investors see high numbers and jump in—only to watch the value collapse when the fake activity stops. It’s inflation disguised as adoption. Then there’s market cap manipulation, a scheme where traders buy and sell the same tokens among themselves to inflate trading volume and price. These pump-and-dump cycles make tokens look valuable, but the real value? Gone. The same thing happens with airdrops. Projects like Concern Poverty Chain or Lunar Crystal NFT promise free tokens or NFTs, but the tokens are worthless, the teams vanish, and the whole thing was just a way to dump supply onto unsuspecting users. In places like Algeria or Nigeria, crypto isn’t just an investment—it’s a shield against national currency collapse. People turn to Bitcoin and stablecoins not because they’re trendy, but because their local money is crumbling under real, uncontrolled inflation.
Even the tools meant to protect you can be twisted. P2P networks power crypto, but in countries like Russia or Iran, they’re used to bypass sanctions and trade under the radar. And when exchanges like Nobitex get hacked, or governments ban mining to save energy grids—like in Kosovo—what’s left for ordinary users? A system where value is manufactured, not earned. The real danger isn’t just that prices go up. It’s that the system is rigged to make you believe things are growing when they’re actually rotting from the inside. Below, you’ll find real stories from the front lines: failed airdrops, hidden scams, and the quiet economic battles people fight every day just to keep their savings from disappearing.
Argentine citizens are turning to crypto-especially stablecoins and Bitcoin-as a lifeline against hyperinflation and strict currency controls. With the peso losing value daily, crypto has become essential infrastructure for savings, payments, and survival.
