Solana Ecosystem raised nearly $150 million SOL in 33 pre-sales, users need to be wary of a large number of scams

03/20 07:28

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ZachXBT released data on social media stating that the Solana ecosystem has recently raised over 796,000 SOL (149.2 million USD) in 33 project pre-sales. Many of these pre-sale projects are suspected scams. After receiving 7,000 SOL, @Sartoshi0x secretly stole 62% of the SOL from the pre-sale and did not distribute the tokens. @Jared_eth, who raised 2,100 SOL, is a fake Jared MEV robot account, and another fake Jared account received $440,000 in pre-sale funds in June 2023. @Vombatus_eth rug after raising over 13,000 SOL. Earlier, ChainCatcher reported that Solana co-founder Toly (Anatoly Yakovenko) called for an end to this type of pre-sale issuance project model on X platform.

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