2026-01-15 20:22:04

The trend is undeniable—backdoor KOL partnerships are making a comeback in crypto. We're seeing more undisclosed influencer deals silently shaping market narratives, with little transparency about who's actually being paid to promote what. It's the classic playbook: selective partnerships, cherry-picked messaging, and minimal disclosure requirements. The wild part? Most retail traders never even know they're being influenced. Whether this signals a shift in how projects approach marketing or just highlights gaps in community accountability remains to be seen.

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YieldHunter

· 3h ago

ngl, if you look at the data on disclosure patterns, this isn't even a comeback—it never actually left. degens just got better at hiding it. the correlation coefficient between pump announcements and silent partnerships is... yeah, you already know.

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MoodFollowsPrice

· 3h ago

It's the same old trick again... I'm already tired of it, but someone really needs to expose this. Retail investors getting chopped up like this is how it happens.

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DeFiDoctor

· 3h ago

The consultation records show that this is a typical information asymmetry syndrome. Retail investors are always reactive, while the project team has already prepared the medication list long ago. The problem is not with the KOLs themselves, but with the fact that this system has no restraint mechanism at all, making it as dangerous as a hospital without regulatory oversight.

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NotSatoshi

· 4h ago

ngl, this tactic should be banned; retail investors are just being harvested like leeks.

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