Tag: Rug
85% of crypto rug pulls in Q3 didn’t report audits: Hacken
Cryptocurrency rug pulls are not too difficult to be spotted by investors as the majority of such scams usually share distinct and visible features, a [...]
Rug pull feared as Safereum devs reportedly unlock and dump native token
The crypto community has been left fearing the worst after seeing huge sums of liquidity drained from the cryptocurrency project Safereum just hours a [...]
Nothing to see here: OpenSea denies exec involved in $60M rug pull: Nifty Newsletter
Welcome to the latest edition of Cointelegraph’s Nifty Newsletter. Keep reading to stay up-to-date with the latest stories on nonfungible tokens. Ever [...]
Meet the guerilla artist who staged a crypto ‘rug pull’ in front of the SEC
Street vendors abound in downtown Manhattan’s Financial District. But weeks ago, on Sept. 14, an especially unconventional seller set up shop in front [...]
OpenSea ‘unaware’ of any involvement of former exec in $60M rug pull
Nonfungible token (NFT) platform OpenSea says it is unaware of any evidence pointing to a former employee being involved in the infamous AnubisDAO rug [...]
Cardano stablecoin project gambled away investors’ money before rug: Report
In 2021, Ardana Labs claimed it would provide an innovative stablecoin platform for the Cardano network. The new project, called “Ardana,” would allow [...]
Binance’s indecision to freeze BNB wallets drew controversy in this $11M rug pull
A BNB Chain rug pull scams users out of $2 million ($11 million at today's BNB prices). Users ask Binance for help. Binance says it has frozen the fun [...]
Binance creates smart contract to refund users affected by $3M rug pull
Crypto exchange Binance has created an automated smart contract to reimburse users following the events of the Xirtam rug pull.According to a Sept. 6 [...]
Nima Capital goes dark after dumping 9M SNY tokens, community calls it VC rug
The price of the native token of decentralized finance (DeFi) cross-chain bridge Synapse (SNY) plummeted on Sept. 5 after an unknown liquidity provide [...]
PEPE plunges 15% as strange token movements spark fears of rug pull
The price of the frog-themed memecoin Pepe (PEPE) has plunged nearly 15% after recent changes to a multisig wallet and new token transfers ignited fea [...]
Uniswap dev sacked for alleged rug, Steadefi hacker goes mixing and more
Uniswap dev loses job, was it worth it? A Uniswap developer known as “AzFlin” has been sacked by the founder of Uniswap Labs, Hayden Adams, for allege [...]
BALD token developer denies rug pull as price falls 85% post-launch
A new memecoin on Coinbase’s Base network fell 85% after its developer allegedly pulled liquidity of 1,034 Ether (ETH), worth approximately $1.9 milli [...]
Obscure tokens skyrocket amid rug pulls and FOMO
Memecoin madness has arrived on Coinbase’s Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution Base, bringing with it everything from remarkable shitcoin surges to clas [...]
AnubisDAO’s 13.5K ETH rug pull money washes away on Tornado Cash
Nearly two years after the dog-inspired decentralized finance (DeFi) project — AnubisDAO — was rug-pulled for almost $60 million in Ether (ETH), the s [...]
Multichain’s ‘mysterious withdrawals’ have whiffs of a ‘rug pull’ — Chainalysis
The multi-million dollar exploit of cross-chain bridge protocol Multichain could have been an internal rug pull, according to blockchain security and [...]