A stronger ecosystem starts with giving strong communities a second chance.
When a coin gets rugged, abandoned, or crashes, the project can disappear overnight.
But sometimes the community doesn’t.
DeRug is built around those communities — the ones that stay active, keep organizing, and refuse to let the rug be the end.
Turn creator rewards into weekly community-backed buying power.
Every week, DeRug generates creator rewards from activity around its own coin.
Those rewards are not meant to sit idle.
They become the buying power for the next DeRug cycle.
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Holders nominate rugged or abandoned coins.
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DeRug reviews them.
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Qualified projects go to a holder vote.
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The winning coin is then bought gradually using that week’s creator rewards.
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Eligible DeRug holders receive their share of the purchased coin.
Most rugged coins lose two things at once: capital and attention.
A strong surviving community may still have thousands of holders, active chats, creators, and people trying to rebuild — but no coordinated way to bring sustained attention back.
DeRug creates that coordination.
The goal is not one giant buy.
The goal is a controlled, gradual buying process designed to bring steady activity back to a coin without creating one artificial spike that immediately becomes exit liquidity.
Nominate. Review. Vote. Buy. Repeat.
Each weekly cycle gives DeRug holders another opportunity to choose a coin that deserves a second look.
The process repeats.
Over time, DeRug becomes more than a single project.
It becomes a network of holders continuously identifying and backing communities that survived when their original project did not.
Built around holders
To nominate a coin, you must hold DeRug.
To vote, you must hold DeRug.
To receive a share of the winning coin, you must meet the holder eligibility requirements for that cycle.
This keeps the system centered around people who are actually participating in the DeRug ecosystem.
A community-driven second-chance layer for crypto.
The long-term goal is to create a transparent system where rugged and abandoned coins can earn another opportunity based on one thing:
whether a real community is still there.
Not every crashed coin should be revived.
Not every project deserves support.
But when a real community survives the rug, DeRug gives holders a way to identify it, vote on it, and put real buying power behind it.
The rug may end the original project.
It doesn’t have to end the community.
DeRug is not built to save every coin. It is built to back the communities that survived the rug.
