ERC-20 tokens didn’t fail.
The way they were built did.
The old assumption: ERC-20 is a solved standard—deploy, audit, list, grow.
The reality now: most ERC-20 tokens collapse under real usage, not exploits.
Why? Because teams optimized for issuance, not behavior.
What changed:
Liquidity events exposed weak token economics.
DAOs discovered governance that can’t evolve.
Compliance pressure made “neutral” contracts suddenly unusable.
ERC-20 today is not about writing a contract.
It’s about designing a system that survives interaction.
If your token can’t adapt after launch, it’s already obsolete.
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