The most striking feature of the cryptocurrency market is its sheer scale of proliferation. From the solitary existence of Bitcoin in 2009, the ecosystem has undergone a "Cambrian Explosion" of digital assets, creating a landscape of unprecedented diversity and competition. This quantitative expansion, however, masks a more complex reality of value concentration and mass extinction. As of today there are 18.65 million assets that are have been tracked on coinmartketcap.com. The Trajectory of ...