{"id":575052,"date":"2026-03-27T15:53:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T15:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/incentive-design-could-change-retail-investors-fortunes\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T15:53:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T15:53:20","slug":"incentive-design-could-change-retail-investors-fortunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/incentive-design-could-change-retail-investors-fortunes\/","title":{"rendered":"Incentive design could change retail investors&#8217; fortunes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjYtMDEvMDE5YzBhZmMtZjI0Yy03YmNlLWFmYTMtMDgyYWI2Yzk5NjE4LmpwZw==.jpg\" alt=\"Incentive design could change retail investors' fortunes\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Crypto cycles trap retail in speculation. Savings layers with capital preservation and prize incentives rewrite participation for consistent gains.<\/p>\n<p data-ct-non-breakable=\"undefined\"><em><strong>Opinion by: Ilya Tarutov, founder of Tramplin<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Crypto hasn\u2019t struggled because the technology was flawed. Instead, it faltered as a result of the incentive structures the industry created, which have quietly turned it into something that works against the very people it was supposed to serve.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2017, every crypto market cycle has followed the same <a href=\"https:\/\/research.grayscale.com\/reports\/the-state-of-the-crypto-cycle\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">pattern<\/a>. Each cycle started with excitement, followed by retail inflows, a velocity trap and catastrophic drawdowns, and ended in an erosion of trust that takes months, if not years, to rebuild. Each cycle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/chart\/ETHUSD\/yI5CqNJb-THE-CYCLE-OF-MARKET-EMOTIONS\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">begins<\/a> with optimism, peaks at overconfidence and concludes with panic and despair.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/incentive-design-change-investors-fortunes\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crypto cycles trap retail in speculation. Savings layers with capital preservation and prize incentives rewrite participation for consistent gains. Opinion by: Ilya Tarutov, founder of Tramplin Crypto hasn\u2019t struggled because the technology was flawed. Instead, it faltered as a result of the incentive structures the industry created, which have quietly turned it into something that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":575053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-575052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}