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In the latest SlateCast, Liam “Akiba” Wright and Nate Whitehill sat down with Maximiliano Stochyk Duarte to unpack what makes token launches succeed as the market heads into 2026. Duarte argued that the bar has risen: retail attention is harder to earn, and projects without a real business model risk failing quickly. CoinTerminal’s launchpad pitch Wright introduced Duarte as Head of Sales at CoinTerminal, a Dubai based Web3 fundraising platform positioned around “raise capital transparently” while “giving retail investors fair access to early stage token deals.” Pressed to translate that into day-to-day work — “What do you do when you wake up and get outta bed?” — Duarte said his core job is talking with teams preparing to launch and helping them structure what the token needs to succeed. He stressed that product traction alone doesn’t guarantee a healthy launch: “And even if you have a great product, usually the token is like a separate product.” Fundraising is central, but Duarte framed CoinTerminal as both capital formation and distribution. “We have a 650,000 user. Community that basically they’re able to contribute into the sales before they go out on exchanges,” he said, adding that founders also want exposure and “buying pressure into their token.” Why 2026 feels different Duarte told the hosts the market has become more selective, starting with capital formation: raising is “not that easy as it was like a couple of years ago.” He also pointed to regulation as a growing force around launches, while noting that projects come to market for different reasons — sometimes utility, sometimes simply money. He repeatedly returned to the same friction point: attention and trust. Narratives can burn out quickly, he said, pointing to how “AI” became a label slapped onto everything without sustaining retail interest, before summarizing the new standard…

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Filed under: News - @ January 20, 2026 7:41 pm