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Legal action begins against developer who solicited investments to build an OpenSea competitor, then used it to fund his NFT trading

Rug pull on Apr 7, 2022

ONE SOURCE · 1 SOURCE
Lost
$400K
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#1,221
among thefts by dollars lost

What happened

No description from DefiLlama or SlowMist; see the sources below.

Details

Date
Apr 7, 2022
Kind
Rug pull
Method
not stated
How in
Insiders: rug pulls, frauds, collapses
Target
not stated
Chains
Ethereum

Reported by

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