Crypto Archives November 2025: Airdrops, Regulations, and High-Risk Tokens

When you look at the crypto landscape in November 2025, a month defined by regulatory shifts, abandoned tokens, and rare legitimate airdrops. Also known as the end of the speculative frenzy, it was a time when only projects with real infrastructure or clear utility survived the pullback. This wasn’t a month of hype—it was a month of cleanup. People stopped chasing fake airdrops and started asking: Who’s actually building something? The answer showed up in the posts: a few solid DeFi experiments, a handful of dead tokens, and governments quietly rewriting the rules.

Crypto airdrop, a distribution method once used to bootstrap communities. Also known as free token giveaways, it was still alive in November 2025—but only for projects with real traction. Zamio’s TrillioHeirs NFT airdrop gave real multipliers to active users, while TopGoal’s supposed third event was a ghost. Meanwhile, KALATA’s 2022 airdrop still mattered because it had actual users. The lesson? If no one’s trading the token after the airdrop, it was never real. At the same time, crypto regulation, the invisible force shaping where and how you can use crypto. Also known as government crypto policies, it became sharper than ever. Portugal’s NHR program ended, Colombia offered no legal protection, and GCC countries didn’t ban crypto—they just built their own digital currencies. You couldn’t ignore regulation anymore. If your exchange or wallet didn’t work in your country, it wasn’t a glitch—it was a warning.

Non-custodial wallet, the only way to truly own your crypto when banks or exchanges turn hostile. Also known as self-custody, it wasn’t optional in places like Colombia or Saudi Arabia. If you held crypto in a restricted country, your keys were your only legal shield. MetaMask and hardware wallets weren’t just tools—they were lifelines. And then there were the DeFi, a system where financial apps talk to each other like Lego blocks. Also known as Money Legos, it was still the most powerful idea in crypto. People weren’t just using it—they were building on it. Composable protocols let anyone stack yield, borrow, and swap without permission. But not every project was worth building on. Most of the tokens in this archive had no liquidity, no team, and no future.

November 2025 didn’t give you new trends—it gave you clarity. You saw which tokens were dead (Lum Network, Isabelle, TROLLGE), which exchanges were traps (iZiswap, Cobinhood), and which regulations actually mattered. You learned that low liquidity isn’t just risky—it’s deadly. And you saw that the only crypto that survived was the kind you could use, not just speculate on. What follows isn’t a list of hot picks. It’s a record of what worked, what vanished, and what you should never touch again.