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Smart trade coin claims to enable users to automatically earn significant amounts of money without any effort. This is of course too good to be true. Smart trade coin is an opaque platform that does not disclose neither its team nor its founder. Installing the software could be risky, here are potential outcomes:
- It could be a scam: Providing them any passwords to any crypto accounts could result in those funds to be stolen. This is the most likely case because of the reasons we explain below.
- It could be a Ponzi scheme with users making initial gains which are paid by new joiners’. Then, all users’ funds could be misappropriated by the founding team
- It could be a joke app/coin. We wouldn’t be surprised as it seems haphazardly created. At last as of 2021, they haven’t disclosed that it was a joke.
- There are also other theoretical possibilities. For example, this could be a valid business that indeed generated returns for its users. We find this very unlikely.
What is smart trade coin (STC)?
Smart trade coin claims to provide software that connects to multiple cryptoexchanges. It claims to help users to use one app to manage multiple cryptoexchange accounts allowing them to:
- use all exchanges via a single interface
- configure auto trading bots for automatic trading
- earn by arbitraging price differences between exchanges as seen below

Is smart trade coin (STC) a scam?
Most probably, yes. The most important warning signs are:
Unrealistic claims
Artbitrage between exchanges is indeed possible and could theoretically generate value. However, it would be very difficult to do so in practice:
- Most value will be lost as fees to the two exchanges involved in the transaction
- Crypto prices are very volatile and price fluctuations could wipe out minor benefits from arbitrage
Even if this company built the technology to achieve consistent earnings via arbitrages, it wouldn’t market itself to retail investors. It would raise funds and do arbitrage at large scale. Therefore, it would both generate greater value and it would not need to bother with all the marketing efforts it is currently doing. So it is unlikely that the company has the capability to generate consistent earnings via arbitrage.
Deceptive marketing
This looks like a textbook example marketing text for promoting a scam:

Opaque business practices
There is no information about the founding team except the founder. And the information on founder includes his age rather than any other credential:

Also note that the country name in their address is wrong. It should be “and” not “an”. I had never seen a company misspell the name of their country.
They don’t explain how they earn their income. However, they have been buying traffic via pay-to-surf websites like CoinPayU.
Bad reviews on app stores
About half the reviewers call the app to be a scam.
Numerous users reporting that they lost 95% of their savings
Users lose their savings and there is no way to verify that these funds were not simply taken by the Smart trade coin team.
We see no reason for these users to lie about losing their funds. They are not promoting another coin or investment scheme, why would they lie about losing money?

The company accepting that users lost money
The company recently provided some excuses, like their supposed use of leverage, to explain why some users lost almost all their money. There is nothing proving their statements. It is possible that the STC team simply took most of the money invested in the system. We can not be 100% sure about what happened given their opaque practices but it would be unwise to invest in them especially after this event.
Users need to trust the app with their cryptoexchange accounts
This is like giving your house key and credit card to an anonymous person.
Not maintained website
Their website was not accessible during our last update.
Is smart trade coin’s TRADE a scam?
They also launched a coin on a single exchange. The coin’s value has been consistently falling as seen below. Given what we have seen about the company so far, the coin is unlikely to generate any value.

Why are we not clearly saying that it is a scam?
Unfortunately, the only way to verify that something is a scam is to be scammed. And we haven’t used the app since we believe that it is dangerous. so we can not conclusively say that this is a scam.
How can this problem be solved?
There needs to be a mechanism for app stores to verify apps of above a certain traction to ensure that they are at least legitimate companies.
Currently app stores like Google Play earn from apps since apps contribute to their ecosystem. Not providing even the most basic verifications in app stores for apps with tens of reviews is wrong and leads users to fall victim to scams and data collection operations. This is wrong and it should stop.
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