I would be quite interested in the answer to this question. How does one short a coin?
Borrow the coin you want to short, then sell it, and you now have a short position on that coin.
Great way to lose a lot of money fast if you don't know what you're doing.
If anything, the modern round of coins with smart contracts are probably uniquely suited to shorting, or enabling the shorting of other coins.
Decentralized platforms like DyDx offer leveraged longs/shorts on a lot of popular pairs as well
Another way to theoretically short a coin is to borrow a lot of it against a stable asset on any asset lending platform like AAVE