Topic: Many old coins are dead and abandoned by the developer, WHY? (Read 709 times)

There are several reasons why many old coins/tokens have died or been abandoned, because maybe they lacked funds when developing their products during a long bear market and also began to be abandoned by the community because they might no longer be attractive or hopeless.

I think people give up with their projects and start a new one. 

The crypto market is always dynamic with running and moving conditions. Basically, if I do with a cryptocurrency exchange I will see if the coin is stable. This is because a coin maintains a stable state when the trading and investing of that coin continues at the same pace. Therefore, an unknown dead coin cannot carry any profit so its developer abandons it.

Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Monero and other top old altcoins never introduced any crowdfunding and they are the best presently, well funded projects aren't that successful why? Maybe the teams intentions? When money is involved they lose themselves or what? Old projects are more stronger than new projects

We can't say "only bitcoin and ethereum", there are coins like litecoin that has been around for over 5 years and still in top 5 for example, and that is just one example. There are tons of coins that are high in price and have been around for over 3 years and that is over 30% of all crypto history so I would say they are "old" as well. Sure there are some coins that do not get any attention at all, however that doesn't mean that all old coins are bad neither.

In fact I find most new tokens and coins more risky and do not make a decent profit compared to old ones, if you look at top 20 and find the ones that was created over 3 years ago and build a portfolio based on those two things alone, you are going to have a pretty decent portfolio over long period of time.

People will still have more of tokens like that as much as we follow too good to true project or invest in a project without having a particular product or utility they satisfy. The ways out of such is by
- doing an extensive research on the project to invest into.
- knowing the authenticity of the people behind the project and their partners
- knowing the technological possibility of attaining the project objectives and so on

I think it's up to the investor to check if the coin if profitable in the future, this is where research steps in, an investor should look if the project or coin has any value in the near future, mostly coins died if there is no progress or any update from the developer, and never do anything like a product that will keep a project more exciting and interesting for investors, once they see no progress it will surely die or it will be just left behind by others.

Many old coins turned scam, dead and abandoned, they are all in the past now but now many new projects will repeat such same step in the next 3-4 years later, you need to sure about a project very well before investing money on them, I know that some projects are well founded with good teams but as time goes by things might change that's why we need to only take limited risks with our money.

Not all dead projects are dead because they turned scam, some are plagued with problems after launch, some failed to create awareness and not much interest on the project's use case, some teams have betrayers among them too, the problems that can drag a project down are many in numbers

Actually ,it is a factor that the objects that left behind should not be used today due to it is abandoned except for those who love to have old coins, however. even if we say old coins are dead there is still someone who gives on what is worth of it which means it also gives value to everyone when it was currently in demand. In connection with this, we may not be able to blame developers effort to improve or recycle a desirable coin because a real coin should always on top which is give an attraction to all investors to feel comfortable.

They are dead because they are half baked projects, many developers have different aims when they build tokens and most are interested in money only, some devs aren't even real developers, they don't have crypto knowledge but for that fact that there is money to be made in this space they forced themselves to create shit tokens, they will surely end up been called shitcoins

Number 1 reason is lack of funds, and there are 2 factors for me why that happened. Maybe the project didn't attract much attention that they only got a few investors. Or this can also be a scam project where they do a crowdsale and after getting enough amounts they abandon their project.

Top altcoins are the best for long term holding, it's not easy for a fresh project to go up into top 10 list today, projects like Avalanche and Polkadot climb up so fast because of their capability, team work and better blockchain experience, those are the projects that's worth holding for very long term, just take advantage of new projects for profit making sake, they aren't reliable

Maybe we have seen old coins that was really hype and good at the time and the popularity is fading away by the time being and got knocked out by other coins. That's what happen actually.
They don't have strong community, poor support of developers and some other stuffs.

I would say the other one is Binance or BNB. I think Binance is really good for HODL and since it is being used for trading on Binance then the prospect and potential is really high.

I agree. Just leave them to save yourself from shard profit lose.
Most of the time, reality is the best basis to do investment.
Old coins with enough success evidence is much better investment than new coins without real use case and the trading volume is not even real. I'm not saying all new coins but some. If we know that the project is nearly dead, then better to leave than be dead your money  with the project.

many coins die because the purpose of the coin is not objective so that the coin does not grow, to create coins is not only about profit, but must also prioritize the benefits of the token, people will not buy these coins if the coins are not the same benefit once.

This is a pretty classic plot, right? So instead of looking at the listing's performance, we better focus on the technology development of a project. indeed there will be only a few projects that will show their technological development, because there are only a few projects that are worthy of our investment

The question is, how you are going to measure the performance of a project. Out of the 10,000 or so coins/tokens in existence now, only around 1%-2% are having real life usage. Remainder are used only for trading and for speculative investment. As long as they get pumped, these coins will be listed in the exchanges. And when the pump stops, gradually they will get delisted.

If you look at Bitcoin prices of altcoins, they aren't doing great in the long term. ETH had an ATH of more than 0.12 BTC, now it's stuck in 0.03 BTC zone, while Bitcoin keeps showing great performance. So, if you take huge risk that they can start crashing, without getting much benefits, because they perform worse than Bitcoin.


Finding primes isn't super useful, and it's a pretty bad thing for a PoW algorithm - if one day someone will discover a faster way to solve this problem, pehaps with quantum computers, then they would able to hijack the mining. By using hash functions you at least get cryptographic guarantees of their security.

The performance of a project will determine how long it's going to stay alive or probably forever going to be alive if it's very useful for the world, shitcoins will get delisted on exchanges as time goes on if there is no good use case, quality of a project is what speaks louder for a project not the team

It's not just a listing issue. many coins have been listed but ended up being shitcoin now. the most important thing is the development of a project, if you look at the top 100 coins in cmc, they all have good technology, real use cases and also development according to the timeline. So the development of a project is the most important because where do you want to take the project, if the project has an accurate real use case I'm sure the price will be good

That's one of the best slogan in the industry, "don't invest what you can't afford to lose", this statement have helped thousands in the industry, including me myself. I sometimes blamed and still blaming those investors that can't read project whitepapers before they invest, most of these projects without concrete or legit whitepaper are always found with plagiarism of any sort, and this should have be a clear indication that the project isn't safe for investment. But what we see with investors is: they will push into the project funds they can't afford to lose thereby incurring unnecessary debts when the project fail.

It can be 'tricky' to tell if a coin is really 'dead' or not.

This is because ALL the Crypto Exchanges here or there or anywhere NO LONGER purge 'dead coins' they just live on the exchanges forever.

The price 'never' goes below 0.00000001 1 Satoshi. For example, I have the 'dead' coin FujiCoin of 10 million of them. That would mean that 'on paper'

it is worth at today's prices of $19,315.18 from www.coinmarketcap.com $1,931.52 USD. With me so far?

But you have to look at the coins 'sale' volume and how many coins on various exchanges are for sale or buyers.

In Fujicoins (FJC) case there are like 50 million FJC for sale and NO buyers at this bottom price that can be listed on any exchange above.

Thus at say $6 of sales in a month, with on any exchange, millions of FJC ahead of you in the sell column, you will NEVER go up enough in the que

to sell any coin. Thus this is the sure-fire way to tell a dead coin...no volume..no sales and everyone trying to sell ASAP on all exchanges and of course

the kiss of death of 1 sat is a low as you can go.

Again, it would be nice if exchanges 'would' research stuff like above again and get rid of 'dead' coins..but hey $6 a month of FJC sales is $6 a month of

FJC sales to the exchange, so they never bother. Thus exchanges keep filling up with the latest coins and never dump the dead coins...making it all so very

hard to muddle through all this. Anyway, this is how I know Fujicoin is deader than dead, no matter what the exchanges or the founder of FJC says.

Brad

That is indeed true. That is why funding and marketing are one of the significant elements in pushing through a project. And as per the holding strategy that has been instilled in everyone during the earlier times of cryptocurrency, we can really say that there is a great risk in doing it because coins may come and go.

Crypto-exchanges also contributed to the appearance of dead coins. A token that is traded on a well-known platform will attract new investors faster, because the fact that it is listed already indicates its potential. The problem is that not all project owners could pay for a place in the listing.

Don't ever invest what you can't afford to lose even if the project looks like it will always be here to stay because we can never tell if the project will survive for long term or short time, the most dangerous projects in crypto world are new projects because the success of crypto is why we keep seeing fresh projects almost every day now

competitions is the killer of any projects, if the team is not good in marketing their projects expect that it will die eventually, without any participation from the community, there's nothing that attract new investors to invest in and work with the project, it's very important
that the team builds a solid foundation.


It's all about how much they've collected, if that's enough they will just dis-continue everything and enjoy those money that they've
got from those poor investors who put in their money hoping for something good to happened with their investment.

The methodology is really simple. There are thousands of altcoins available in the market and the promoters just need to plagiarize the code and white paper of any of these coins. Once this is done, they need to hype the coin using various bounty campaigns and then get it listed to one or two small-sized exchanges. The next step is to trigger a pump-and-dump cycle. Once this is done, the promoters can dump most of their coins/tokens and then exit the development. And this results in "dead and abandoned" coins, as mentioned by the OP. And the promoters can repeat the cycle multiple times, as long as there is demand in the market.

maybe because the previous project has no hope to continue and then the dev prefers to create a new project and leave the old project. but not all like that, what I often encounter devs leaving old projects because they have pocketed quite a lot of money from embezzlement of investors' money.

Those team members in a project who don't introduce themselves or stay anonymous are definitely a scam because there is no legitimate proof that they can be trusted, making investors worry and hesitate to invest their money in them.

One of the reasons why some developers abandoned their projects is that they lack time and budget and don't have any concrete plan that they left with lost and limited motivation; that is why their project is a failure.

Especially those project where the team are mostly anonymous, no trace of identification which means very easy to abandoned one project and quickly jump into another and continue deceiving people,
It is important know the team behind a project has genuine interest for that project enough to make them stay and support the project long term or as long as required,
Yeah we have many abandoned project around because the dev have probably move on to a new project or just simply abandoned the project and took funds live a good life.

This is even a tip of the iceberg, scam developers are now blaming hackers for their misfortune, they pretend to be hacked or they hacked their projects themselves and lie to the world about their misfortunes, this is currently happening around DeFi projects today.

Two things are involved here, a failed project is different from a scam project, a failed project fail due to lack of funds or interest in the project, expectations aren't met and they have no choice but to close down but some people willingly build scam projects to rob investors of their money and slowly swallow the whole liquidity themselves

i have some thoght that maybe they leave their old coin are dead because they were developed by some amateur developer.
they can make a new product/project that folllowing the crypto trend for now. then they can swap the old token and make it alive again.

It's very important that as long as you are holding any coin whether old or new you need to follow it's development and do not have a strong attachment to them and you should be ready to sell when the time comes that they are losing value, this is to protect your money and avoid losing a lot of money.

If it don't succeed, the easiest way is to give up，nobody pay attention，no circulate，such coin what can you do except abandon.If developers still want to keep playing，rebuild a new coin can save they a lot of time.

Many projects are created to get abandoned as time goes on, they are just like pump and dump projects, I invest less in new projects and more in old projects because it's getting more difficult to know which project is legit or which one has bad intent, investing in new projects is like trying out your luck, the kinda luck you'd pray when gambling

Some developers intentionally create bad tokens to steal money and some failed because the team can't handle what the created, many developers in crypto space shouldn't be called developers, they aren't into blockchain at all, no experience or whatsoever, still they will go ahead and create tokens with bad use case

Bad products or lack of good use case will kill interest for any project, raising fund for such project will always be a problem, developers need to make sure that their project use case is non repetitive or cloned of other existing projects, if you can't bring up your own idea do not bother releasing a garbage project, it's a waste of time

There are several reasons why a project became valueless and turns out to be a shitcoins. One of it is the coin/token has doesnt have enough support from the crypto-community that makes it so weak to compete in the market. Another is that the developer doesnt have any further more plan to their project and they are just into getting funds and afterwards runaway and scam many investors. Also, the team developers is consisting of non-experts and lack of crypto experiences and expertise that make their project so weak and/or no potential to be in crypto industry.

no funds, less popularity, bad team, and too complicated concept. this is the fundamental reason why many old projects are dead or abandoned. and what's worse is that when it was first introduced it had the full support of the crypto community and a large investment fund. but they don't last long, once they start to deviate from the project roadmap it will slowly die. The projects that I remember are PundiX, Dent, Nucleus, and many other old projects that have large development funds but seem abandoned.

Either they nade enough profits by creating the project or didn't made anything. Most projects were created with no reak purposes which are the one will reaches the value to zero because their developers didn't tried anything to get their project stand out from ocean of similar kind of projects. But at the end its dead so there is no point of actually discussing about them that is why they are called as shitcoins.

Old coins that are said to be dead and abandoned were mostly came from scam projects that even its own developer has just leave it because its no use at all. Investors might have put their money on wrong projects and after several years, these coins are now considered dead coins or even shitcoins. And having these old coins for investment is very risky than investing from those new coins in the market that have high potentials.

The focus of projects over the money were the one that have caused old coins dead and abandoned. In most cases, the development and progress of the project will be high, but it won't have good strength in the market. This happens because the services provided through specific project is just tokenised and doesn't have. By minimum viable product backing.

Because in the first place, they have no intentions of developing their project. Just to lure people in throwing their money to their pockets. This is the reason why most coins are dead and abandoned by their developers. And sometimes, they are just second-rate devs, who are just copying someone else's code just to screw those naive buyers. And if there are sincere dev team, usually their enthusiasm to develop their project wane off when there's no more funds to use, so they just abandon the project even if they have noble use case.

Either they wasted the money from the ICO investors and had to  cease all activities or they never had the intention to finish the project at all. Just were in for the quick n easy money and were scams from the beginning. Counts for most ICOs

developers created projects and tokens but didn't find use cases for their products and thus you can see them dead and abandoned. with the lapse of time the quantity of such projects will grow because crypto market has the limits.

It's either just that they're pure scammers (common).
The hype on the coin just drained out. Making everyone leave the said project not just the investors but those talking about it as a community.
Red flags for those possible abandoning of the devs would be rare to no repositories in their Github page. Projects have that mostly posted and it is obvious that it is abandoned when many months have passed but no pull requests have even been made.

Some altcoins have the same uses that is not beneficial for investors to use at all, during ICO hype same with DeFi hype they were active and gives good advertising that makes them noticeable, but once the hype gone developers ended up giving up their projects since maybe investors already trade. Off their holdings, so developers need to evolve and give always new outlook or ideas to make them noticeable.

There are a large number of projects that the team no longer pays attention to. Some have abandoned altogether, others are going through hard times because teams are switching to new, more promising projects. Investors are more interested in new directions, the well-forgotten old is simply dead.

When I examined old topics; I've seen many coin projects became zombie projects with hacking, team disappearance and insufficient technological development. There are such projects even nowadays. Therefore I'm very careful about choosing coins for investment.  This is why I am very afraid of long-term investments in coins except btc, eth etc. 

I really like the points you made here, most old dead projects have most of these factors affecting them. Imagine when members of a community supporting a project completely lose interest in it due to declining coin price or absence of updates or development, the project will crumble eventually. Also, there is a vital point you missed which is lack of funding to continue with the project. Some few genuine projects which lack funding and hence can't keep paying workers, or keep up with developing product, marketing etc, still go under the radar. Truth about most altcoin projects is that they won't last long term before they go extinct or exit scam, just very few last the test of time.

I have seen many coins to be dead because their has no utility and future plan for development. Maybe some of them can't get enough fund in fundraising phase. If any coin doesn't have the utility and volume then it can't attract the investors or traders to invest on it. People expect a marginal profit from investing assets as return.

The problem with old coins in my opinion that it needs a minimum number of active investors and traders to make a project attractive for new people. Without such a base of traders a coin is just not likely to survive in the long run. If there is no real traded volume in a particular coin over the last 90 days, I wouldn't start to invest in it either. Same goes for the developers, if they see less and less demand, it's just not worth it for them to invest more resources in their projects without a good return.

I'm wondering how a crypto project development can takes millions of dollars to develop when you can build tokens for free this days, is the real problem the fund for development or the devs are just using funds to make excuses? I don't believe that projects need a certain money to run when we have many projects that don't use ICO or raise any funds for development

The problem about old coin is if they use all the funding raised from the project and doesn't have enough money to use to continue development they abandoned it . And that's why more of them failed and can't trust fully your money. I don't  say all old coins is negative there are still many old coins that's still exist and have good development . You onlye need to DYOR and enter only when there are good event that will happen to coins and Do not be a holder. That's what more people lost because they fully trust their money for coins and hold it for long which is wrong mindset.

Most dead projects are intentionally build to get abandoned later all, it's all part of the big plan, and some just end up dead because of the incapable team members, before you entrust your hard earned money to any project make sure the teams are crypto experts, real blockchain experts will handle new projects professionally

What do you expect from those shit coins? They don't have any real use case. Most of them are straight clones or aren't much different from the current well know crypto currencies. They don't offer solution to any of the current problems that exists with crypto currencies. Those that have potential aren't being developed properly and hence the community loses their interest which eventually causes the developers to abandon the project. These are just like 10% of those coins. Rest of the 90% were made to scam people.

Once they lose the trust of most investors, it will surely be too hard for them to recover again so what they usually do is just to create new projects instead of pursuing the failed coins. Instead of hoping for dead coins to rise back, just move forward and invest with trusted and potential coins.

Because they have no use case and was not created to have one either, those dead and worthless project that are being abandoned by the developers were created for short-term quick and easy money grab, anyone who hold those tokens believing they will amount to something in future are only wasting their time.

We learned the hard way, I was so obsessed with planning to be a future whale so I kept holding every single altcoins I earned or mined, after three years of waiting all those coins goes down to the extent of no return, they are so far from recover and almost died, most new altcoins are bad for long term holding, one need to be careful with new altcoins

yes I agree with you. that's the reason investors are now wiser and won't put their money in projects that don't thrive. On the one hand, projects that are difficult to develop are usually because there is no market demand and will then be abandoned by the developer. There are many such coins and have been abandoned by their developers.

Coins die because they have neither utility and nor the interest of investors for profit. Even though we talk so much about use of cryptocurrency, the real utility and real life use of cryptocurrencies are very limited. Most of the interest and trade of crypto occurs for potential profit making. It's not that manipulate investors are destroying crypto but in reality there are just a few real dedicated utility crypto and every other are dishearten approach to make money.

Some projects that have raised million dollars of funds were also getting abndoned by the developers becausee their main intentiont to grab money. They have no competence to develop the product.
Even when they have got million dollars and they didn't wanna spend it and keep all of the funds in their wallet.
That's a scam. These kind of projects being created to scam.

This is one of the problems of altcoins.
Most of this projects are low market cap or even before they quite good market cap, but they are still slowly getting dead and abandoned. Some projects are also being abandoned because there are some new projects that are much better or overall got surpasses these old projects. I also don't blame old projects because they have the choice not to be outdated, there is always a room for growth and improvement.

There are many factors and reasons that result in project failure, closure or simply abandoning from the team or developers. Some of the main factors include:
Outdated business model.
Team disputes or team losing interest.
Use case not popular.
Bigger and better product in the market already available with no space for more projects.
Failure to attract large userbase or community.
Failure of team to follow roadmap and delievering on the promises multiple times.
Investors losing confidence.

There is a lot of scam among new tokens. Most of the new projects are created to raise money, and the future of such projects, as a rule, does not interest anyone, so they remain dead weight on the list of cryptocurrencies. Even at the start of the ICO, you can already determine what will happen to the project after a certain amount of time, just look at what it is, check the team, the website design and everything related to the project, check the whitepaper for plagiarism, and see ratings on icobench. If a project has a score higher than 4 there, then this is most likely a reliable project, and if it is not on this site at all, then it is unlikely that something good should be expected from such a project.

The simplest and most honest answers
- they are burned out from work for nothing (enthusiasm is not eternal)
- they don’t receive profit (you have nothing to eat on open source)

In fact, there are many different reasons. Fatigue from the endless development of a product that is used by one and a half people one of whom is your friend.
Lack of money for support and development.
Fatigue from the hype around cryptocurrency in principle and much more.

true, nobody is interested and also real use is the reason so many developers of a coin/token are leaving their product.  many of the developers who have their coins/tokens die, then make new projects again of course with the team and also different concepts.  currently, cryptocurrency is a business, so there is no need to fight for a coin/token that is not in demand, fighting for it will only make developers and investors lose more..

This kind of situation occurs especially when that project lost support from the community. So here's another question that raises and that is why people stop supporting the project? A crypto project should always be developing because our current world is evolving. Thats the main reason in most cases. No future plan and no development ideas or funds.

If a project is dead or abandoned, let it remain that way because it means that the team never had what it takes to build it in the first place. Also, if the team later comes back to revive it, that would be the best time to dump everything if you are holding and move on, because what they couldn't do in the first place, there is every possiblity they won't succeed in the second place. In addition, one of the things that lead to the death of old coins is, lack of ideas from the team; if you look at other old coins, you will realise the team are always looking for ways to keep it growing and valuable unlike others.
Furthermore, the aspect of investing what you can afford has been stated on frequently but most people still chose not to listen. The fact still stands that, not all projects are worth it, hence invest what you can afford to lose just in case it goes against your expectations, and funny enough in most new projects today the team are only here for themselves, just very few are here for development.

But not for new coins with the same development team, recently the new project has entered the top 5 highest volume on Uniswap but the project is managed by the face of the old team whose project failed. IMO, people don't always judge a failed project team as bad but the team has said the reason the project used to fail was because of the bad market last year, now investors have forgiven it and started the next new step with a new project.

It takes more than good technology, you also need a good community, good leadership, a use case that can produce profit, and good tokenomics. If a project has failed it's likely because of at least one of those points. Also, most older projects have already had their pump. If you want to get rich in crypto, you need to invest in projects with potential that haven't pumped yet, like 0xMR and UNCX.

Not to mention shit tokens, two great examples of what called "dead project left by devs" came into my mind:
1)The first is Doge Coin; developped many years ago but updates stopped due to lack of devs. The project is still alive and has one of the greatest status in the crypto market. Has some good features but hope users keep running their nodes to maintain the network [fast transaction+cheap fee].
2)Second is Grin Coin; a new lunched project but seems to be left by a large part of its community after many similar projects have been lunched using the same protocole [Beam project]. However, it can survive again if the actual devs succeed to make it friendly use.

Most projects were opened with one goal - to raise money from investors and finish the work. Another part of the projects, despite the fact that the team made every effort, but could not attract an investor to their project, was abandoned due to lack of funding. Therefore, you should not expect that such projects can be revived after they were abandoned.

Yes, stop dreaming and continue with another coins. There is no way that an abandoned coin will be revived again. Even if they were able to, it is hard for them to gather investors again as investors will be careful or maybe distance themselves from abandoned projects because it might be abandoned again once the developers get money again.

Don't expect anything on projects that have died or been abandoned by the team because the team that has left will never come back, even if the brand returns, the rest will not attract investors anymore
old coins that are dead are forever dead

because developers prefer to make new coins and leave the old coins that they make themselves. and all this is nothing but the shape of the crypto market scenario. so don't be surprised if you see new coins or old coins die or even then revive them, especially now the Defi trend. people easily use the concept of Defi as a fraud.

- No Interest
- No Development
- No Solid community
- The project no use-case at all

Then for what's purpose, we need to continue or investing in an old, dead, and abandoned coin? Just leave it bruh,if you still try to continues with these type of project only can losing a money.

this is just my opinion....that most old coins are not worth for the long term as they depreciate in price over time. Only Bitcoin and Ethereum are the exception, since they're still one of the most popular coins in the mainstream world. It's best to "hodl" these coins alongside new ones with active development and innovation, in order to prevent many undesired losses in the future.

Right now, there are many old coins that are still alive. But they're often "under the radar" as people are mostly focused on profits rather than utility. There are many good coins like Namecoin and Primecoin, each with their unique features in the crypto/Blockchain space. AFAIK, there are no other coins like Primecoin with an innovative PoW consensus algorithm based on prime numbers. It helps our society with the discovery of prime numbers, putting PoW's "energy consumption" to good use. Sometimes I wish a new dev team or the community would take over the development of Primecoin, in order to further improve its consensus algorithm. Being one-of-a-kind coin, I consider it to be a hidden gem. Namecoin, on the other hand, is a good old coin with a decentralized domain name system. It was the first cryptocurrency to ever make use of a decentralized DNS. Ethereum may have taken the lead in decentralized domain names, but Namecoin is still an alternative worth considering.

No matter which old coins you choose to "hodl" for the long term, it's important to never put all your life savings on them. The risks with old coins are much higher than shiny, new ones on the market. You could end up "holding the bag" someday if your old coin of choice becomes abandoned in development. This in effect, leads to exchanges de-listing the coin, putting trading activity all the way down the drain. You can still use the Blockchain if there is at least 1 node and miner on the network, though. I'm still "hodling" Spreadcoin, despite not having any exchanges available. The Blockchain is still alive and running, which makes the cryptocurrency useful. Let's hope that abandoned coins like Spreadcoin experience revived interest from a new dev team sometime in the future.