// Hacker Noon · 26 March 2026

Educational Byte: Why Are There So Many Cryptocurrencies?

There are about 32.85 million tokens in the wild. Not all of them are useful, not all are active, and not all have real users or liquidity. Not every cryptocurrency is going to survive, because it was just a joke, a scam, or because it wasn’t technically sound.

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