Paradex CEO Anand Gomes used a February 26 podcast appearance to put a name to a pattern the market already knows too well: teams launching tokens at inflated valuations, dumping their allocations, and walking away before shipping a single product. His shorthand — TGE as 'Teams Gonna Exit' — is dark humour with a serious point underneath.
Gomes told the When Shift Happens podcast that two forces are driving the cycle: the absence of meaningful regulation around token launches, and the sheer profitability of the exit model when retail demand is high enough to absorb a dump. The combination lets bad actors monetise hype without accountability.
His read is that the reputational damage compounds over time — each exit makes the next legitimate launch harder to fund and harder for communities to trust. Cleaner launch standards, whether self-imposed or regulatory, are the only structural fix…
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