Right as the weekend was about to start, crypto Twitter sounded the alarm on a possible rugpull scam on Aptos.
A relatively new blockchain environment touted as a “Solana-killer,” Aptos is a Layer-1, PoS blockchain built by two former devs from the Diem Group, Mo Shaikh and Avery Chang. The pair reportedly worked on developing Libra/Diem, Meta’s now-defunct stablecoin project.
Although Diem was halted due to regulatory pressure – who worried that allowing Meta to create its own currency could cause monopoly issues – the two devs allegedly saw potential in the tech they’d worked on and opted to continue the project by themselves, ultimately creating Aptos.
$12 Million Originally Thought to Be Drained
In a Twitter post by D3gens.apt, a fan page for the Aptos community, the alarm was sounded about a potential drain of 1.5 million APT tokens by AptosChimps, another NFT project looking to capitalize on both the popularity of Bored Apes and the hype factor of a new blockchain.
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