A celebrity-endorsed cryptocurrency is almost five times as likely to be a scam
Why now
Thesis: Celebrity crypto carries elevated fraud risk
Catalyst to watch: Enforcement actions or new disclosure rules
Main risk: Contagion to legitimate crypto sentiment
Why it matters
Celebrity-endorsed tokens skew toward scams, reinforcing regulatory and retail-trust risk for crypto broadly.
Details
The “attention economy” is really the sucker economy.
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- marketwatch · 2026-09-23 15:23 UTC