The biggest scam in the crypto world is overvalued unlocking coins.

This allows all participants to lose money.
Those who short or go long with contracts basically can't make money in an infinitely slow decline because there's no explosive rally or crash volatility.
Holding spot assets and waiting for prices to rise often results in the classic boiling frog scenario.
During a bear market, you can keep selling coins to dump the market.
In a bull market, just sell at break-even because the initial valuation is already aligned with a bull market.
Retail investors can't benefit from the gains of a bull market and also suffer a -95% loss in a bear market.
They can't even make money through contracts because there's no volatility.
This is arguably the greatest invention in the history of financial plunder.