Not a price test
A token can still trade after its team stops communicating. A delisted token can belong to an active project.
Definition · policy 2026-07-11.1
What is a
dead coin?
There is no universal technical or legal definition. On Dead Tokens, the phrase is a discovery label. Formal records describe observable public activity, closure, migration or unresolved evidence—never a team’s motive.
Narrow operational test
Publicly silent
At least 180 complete days have elapsed since the newest meaningful, project-originated event across every discovered applicable official channel; at least two channel families were checked, one is communicative, and an active contradiction search found no successor or newer event.
Not a website test
A responding domain, renewed certificate or changed copyright year does not prove meaningful project activity.
Not one clock
Posts, commits, releases, governance and websites have separate histories. The displayed clock must identify its event and scope.
Always reversible
A newer verified event, proven migration or ownership correction can immediately reopen an assessment.
Current scope
A definition, not a market census.
The site currently applies this protocol to a 12-case pilot. It does not claim that every reviewed case is dead or that every crypto project has been assessed.