At least 75 exchanges closed this year. Do you know the reason behind this?
On October 5, 2020, the crypto service comparison website Cryptowisser announced its crypto exchange graveyard. Data shows that so far this year, 75 cryptocurrency exchanges have been shut down, either voluntarily shut down, hacked, shut down by the government, or disappeared directly from the Internet!
According to data released by Crypto Wisser, 5 exchanges were flagged as frauds, and 4 exchanges including Altsbit and Nerae were pointed out that they were closed due to the attack.
A total of 31 exchanges voluntarily closed, and 34 were marked as "MIA"-that is, they disappeared without any explanation. Dutch exchange NLexch and Chilean exchange Chilebit are the only two exchanges announced by their respective governments to close in 2020.
Today we will analyze the commonality and main reasons behind the closure of digital asset exchanges:
1. From the possible problems of the exchange itself
(1) Operation and maintenance costs are too high, some exchanges are due to the fact that the income after launch is too low, the later operation and maintenance costs are too high, the funds cannot make ends meet, or the investor's sudden withdrawal of funds and other reasons caused insufficient funds, which caused the exchange to close down.
(2) Hackers attacked the exchange and stole the assets, causing the platform's capital chain to break and unable to repay the user's funds, thus being forced to declare bankruptcy.
(3) The operation of the platform touched the bottom line of the law, and the platform was shut down due to supervision and investigation.
(4) Use exchanges to cut leeks, quickly go online to attract users to raise funds, and run away with technical problems after reaching the target.
2. Explain from the macro trend
(1) The increase in regulatory pressure, in addition to some exchanges, such as Nlexch in the Netherlands and Chilebit in Chile, were directly closed by their respective governments; some were voluntarily closed, and most exchanges that voluntarily closed were also affected by this reason. Impact.
(2) The explosive growth of DeFi and the rise of decentralized exchanges in 2020 can not ignore the impact on traditional exchanges. According to ICO Analytics data, most centralized exchanges, including mainstream transactions such as Binance and Coinbase As a result, website visits have dropped by more than 10%. On the other hand, Uniswap's website traffic increased by 43%.
3. From the perspective of industry competition
Since the birth of the cryptocurrency industry, cryptocurrency exchanges are almost at the top of the food chain in the currency circle, and they are destined to be only a few.
The digital cryptocurrency investment market has now entered the stock market, and user growth has been weak. The "28th law" is extremely obvious. The top 20 leading exchanges have already collected 90% of their profits, and there are tens of thousands of others left. Small exchanges go to divide the remaining 10% of profits.
The exchanges in the EZB bull market unplug the network cable to run away without any announcement. Bitisisi exchange fraud...There are still many unknown exchanges that have closed their doors without knowing the reason.
For those exchanges with no trading volume, what awaits them is to announce the closure of the door in a dingy manner, or to disappear directly for unknown reasons.
When the exchange is over-saturated and lacks a benign exit channel, it is closed or most exchanges have long been destined.











