The first few months of 2026 have already delivered a tough lesson for the crypto industry: not every project survives the long run. While new protocols and platforms continue to launch across the blockchain ecosystem, several once-promising ventures have quietly closed their doors. Liquidity has tightened, trading activity has slowed in certain sectors, and some business models that looked viable during the bull market no longer make financial sense. In total, eight crypto projects have already shut down in 2026, ranging from DeFi platforms and analytics tools to NFT marketplaces and emerging AI-Web3 infrastructure startups. Some of these projects raised
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