Definitely for many projects, a deep bearish trend will turn into a scramble and doom. This is part of the crypto market, because during a hype there are always a lot of projects that are worthless and crypto winter should filter out worthwhile projects from those that are worthless. Those that survive the global downtrend will develop further. One of the main metrics of project viability and prospects is the participation of funds, the vesting table, as well as the correspondence of the roadmap and implemented functions in the project.
let's admit the fact that a lot of these projects have the main intention of rug pulling when they develop the project. how many do you think have the sincerity to achieve their target objectives in this market to the point that they can sacrifice some of their personal funds? i don't think they are many of them. most are just collecting money for their retirement funds.
no one will definitely admit their true intentions but we will see it on how they progress with their developments. if they are just pure words or promises, and no output, better get out while you can. it is your own instincts that will tell you something is turning out to be wrong eventually.
This we cannot know for sure, just as we cannot be sure about the behind-the-scenes games of the funds that invested in the project and the project team. I have repeatedly encountered such manipulations, which were planned in advance and all the conditions were created for a certain category of investors. As an example, I will take the Kintsugi project, which quietly conducted a listing and did not even announce it on its media platforms. As a result, while the main group of investors was in the dark, they already managed to sell out and dump the tokens at a high price. The community was unhappy with such a move and the team was hit with a wave of abuse on Discord, for which they started to ban users of the channel.
In the same way, they can stall by prior arrangement with a group of investors in order to fit some event under a certain date or something like that. The crypto industry is the wild west in the investment world, and they can use the dirtiest methods against the crowd here.
