#数字货币市场回调# Recently, advertisements for the 0G project have flooded the streets of South Korea, attracting widespread attention. This all-encompassing marketing offensive appears to be normal promotion on the surface, but in reality, it is a carefully designed fundraising strategy. Analyzing its operational model reveals that this project bears a striking resemblance to past failed Crypto Assets projects like FIL.
The business model of 0G has obvious problems: although its promotion emphasizes advanced concepts such as "modular AI blockchain" and "cross-chain interoperability", the technical level is only at the conceptual stage, lacking substantial progress. The real core of the project is a closed-loop system built around capital absorption—attracting investors to purchase nodes through so-called "AI alignment nodes", while designing a complex token locking mechanism: 15% of the tokens are initially bound to staking, unlocking only 33.33%, creating scarcity; 22% of the investor tokens must be locked for 12 months and then released over 36 months. This long cycle design is ostensibly to maintain value stability, but in reality, it reserves ample time for potential price drops in the future, which is highly consistent with FIL's past path of "lock-up hype followed by a crash after unlocking".
It is worth noting that the 0G project has precisely chosen the South Korean market as its main target. The South Korean virtual currency market is known for its speculative atmosphere and has seen several large-scale problematic projects such as Terra/Luna and KOK. These failed cases all employed similar operational tactics: massive marketing combined with false promises. The 0G project also creates hype by promoting the potential of "hundredfold coins" and claiming support from mainstream exchanges, while utilizing online opinion leaders to incite retail investment, perfectly aligning with the typical problematic project characteristics of "lack of practical application, reliance on speculation, and high risk of exit scams."
From the perspective of project operation, 0G's strategic layout extending from Shenzhen to the Korean market is quite deliberate: it selects target investment groups through the "node purchase" model, uses a complex locking mechanism to set up obfuscation for potential market crashes in advance, while leveraging the speculative enthusiasm of the Korean market to absorb retail funds. This is strikingly similar to how FIL attracted investment with the concept of "storage mining" back in the day, with the only difference being that 0G has donned a new packaging of "AI + blockchain."
The project invests heavily in advertising rather than technology development, overemphasizes the design of locked positions while neglecting ecological construction, all of which indicate that its essence may be a capital pool. For potential investors, these overwhelming advertisements should not be seen as investment opportunities, but rather as a risk warning — in the South Korean Crypto Assets market, the intensity of marketing is often directly proportional to project risk, which has almost become an unwritten rule.