$4M 'exit scam' suspected as Kokomo Finance flies off radar, token plunges
Kokomo Finance's social media presence and websites are offline, while the price of the KOKO token fell more than 95% within a matter of minutes.
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Kokomo Finance's social media presence and websites are offline, while the price of the KOKO token fell more than 95% within a matter of minutes.
On-chain detective ZachXBT believes that the project has “likely exit scammed” after bridging $31.6 million to multiple addresses on Tron and Ethereum.
<p>Freeway, a cryptocurrency staking platform, has paused withdrawals citing <a href="https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/eth-is-best-performing-asset-in-july-as-crypto-volatility-decline-continues-report/" target="_blank">crypto and forex market volatility</a>. The sudden move of the project is signaling another rug-pull in the crypto space.</p><p>The cryptocurrency project offers 'Superchargers' with an annual yield of up to 43 percent. It takes deposits in both fiat and cryptocurrencies, putting them in regulated brokerage accounts.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">As all of you will be aware, there has been unprecedented volatility in Foreign Exchange and Cryptocurrency markets in recent times. <a href="https://t.co/9aHsWbm1So">pic.twitter.com/9aHsWbm1So</a></p>— Freeway (@FreewayFi) <a href="https://twitter.com/FreewayFi/status/1584213303399567361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2022</a></blockquote><p>According to the announcement on October 23, the platform is halting buys and deposits too. Further, the project will “not be buying Supercharger simulations until our new strategies are implemented.”</p><p>Freeway is a lesser-known project in the broader cryptocurrency market. The sudden event also resulted in around an 80 percent price drop in the native Freeway (FWT) token of the platform. Before the crash, the project had a market cap of less than $70 million, which came down to only $10 million.</p><p>The project's website claims that it had $160 million in total locked value.</p><p>A Small Yet Significant Crypto Project</p><p>However, the project does not have any significant whales holding its tokens. Most of its 4,342 token holders received <a href="https://www.financemagnates.com/thought-leadership/lyo-airdrop-on-lyotrade-free-token-to-start-trading/" target="_blank">airdrops</a> and kept the holdings primarily ideal.</p><p>In the latest announcement, the platform said it is exploring new strategies by diversifying assets and managing “exposure to future market fluctuations and volatility.” However, it did not provide any details.</p><p>“We will notify you when we are ready to recommence partial Supercharger simulation purchases (buy-backs) and then again as we can recommence full Supercharger simulation purchases as well as on platform Freeway Token (FWT) Deposits and Buys,” the project said.</p><p>However, an enormous red flag of the project came as its administrator started to pull down details of the team.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Never forget these scammers (although I'll be surprised if at least one of them doesn't get plastic surgery) <a href="https://t.co/Y0Ene9LBG9">pic.twitter.com/Y0Ene9LBG9</a></p>— FatMan (@FatManTerra) <a href="https://twitter.com/FatManTerra/status/1584249387680960513?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2022</a></blockquote><p>“The whole team are working very hard with the intention to recommence partial Supercharger simulation purchases (buy-backs) and then to again be able to recommence full Supercharger simulation purchases,” the moderator of the project added.</p> This article was written by Arnab Shome at www.financemagnates.com.
Arbitrum-based decentralized exchange (DEX) Swaprum has allegedly conducted a rug-pull on its users, with $3 million worth of customer deposits being swiped from the platform. A rug-pull or exit scam occurs when a seemingly legitimate project ropes in a certain amount of investment or user deposits before promptly shutting everything down, pulling the capital and [...]
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The biggest incidents in October included the Radiant Capital hack, a phishing attack and the hacking incident involving crypto exchange M2.
CertiK has contacted law enforcement in the United States and the United Kingdom to find the pseudonymous operators.
Over $45 million was lost to exit scams in May while exploits on DeFi protocols racked up less than half that amount over the same period.
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