These projects launched without venture capital backing — no private rounds, no token pre-sales. Most were fair launches, community-funded, or grassroots-driven: #Bitcoin $BTC Current Market Cap: $2,09T Launched by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009. No funding, no pre-sale, no company. @dogecoin $DOGE , $29B Started as a meme in 2013. No funding, no ICO, launched as a joke. @HyperliquidX $HYPE , $12B Decentralized perpetuals exchange with no VC funding. @thebitcoincash_ $BCH , $8B Fork of Bitcoin. No VC funding at launch, backed by community and miners. @monero $XMR , $6.5B Privacy coin launched via a fork (Bytecoin → BitMonero → Monero). No VC, no pre-mine. @litecoin $LTC , $6B Created by Charlie Lee @SatoshiLite   in 2011. Fair launch, no investor funding. @KaspaCurrency $KAS $2.35B Proof-of-work project with DAG architecture. Fair launch, no VC or pre-mine. @decredproject $DCR , $258M Self-funded project with built-in treasury. No VC, launched with a modest pre-mine. @Ravencoin $RVN , $171M Token issuance network. Fair mined launch in 2018 — no ICO, no VC. @nano $XNO, $127M Launched as RaiBlocks, Nano is a low-latency payment platform — no investors involved. @hiveblocks $HIVE 116M Fork of Steem after the hostile takeover by @trondao . Community-led, no VC involvement. @ergo_platform $ERG , $75M Launched without external funding, focused on DeFi and long-term sustainability. @VelodromeFi $VELO , $50M Velodrome Finance is a trading and liquidity marketplace. No VC seed rounds. @GainsNetwork_io $GNS , $39M Gains Network is a synthetic derivatives platform operating on the @0xPolygon and @arbitrum blockchains. No VC, built steadily with strong community support. @PirateChain $ARRR , $28M Fully private coin using zk-SNARKs. No pre-mine, no funding rounds.