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London Real

‣ Losing $1.2 Million on a stablecoin crypto rug pull - Michael Rosmer

London Real

Brian Rose

Investing, Cardano, Crypto, Bitcoin, Brianrose, Ethereum, Londonreal, Technology, Cryptocurrency, Business, Defi

4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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0:00.0

Wow, and so when did you know it was going to be something that was going to start being used by everybody potentially.

0:07.6

There were going to be plugging their Metamask wallets in and their hot wallets in and using your dashboard.

0:12.6

It's a good question, you know, so I think for us there was a real turning point, which was a really bad experience actually.

0:21.2

It's in our book, for anyone who wants to go check out, they can read the Wall Street Arrows over, it's a great book with DeFi.

0:27.6

And so we were somewhat more risk-averse, I would say, than some of the investors in the space.

0:34.8

Some of you were just total de-gents willing to go for the million-eight percent APY, you know,

0:40.0

farm for two days and get out, hope that you don't get scammed and jump onto the next one.

0:44.7

We were not quite so crazy, you know, we had money from previous businesses and,

0:49.2

you know, once you've made the money, you don't really want to lose that money.

0:52.5

So we were being fairly conservative and one of the, I remember specifically, I was in Dubai and I was

0:58.6

walking with my one co-founder and we were talking about there was a project called Compounder and it

1:04.8

was paying about 100% a year on stablecoins. Sounds great, right? 100% on stablecoins.

1:12.9

stablecoins, you don't have to worry about the volatility. There's something called impermanent loss.

1:17.6

We'll probably talk about it later, but we'd kind of discovered that when you have two coins that

1:21.7

are volatile, you get this impermanent loss. And if you're stablecoin to stablecoin, you really

1:25.5

don't have that. So we've eliminated that risk. And it was like two days later or something. They

1:32.2

rug-pulled and it was like collectively lost like $1.2 million or so. Yeah, not a great day.

1:40.2

Rug-pulls when they just disappear the protocol. Yeah, so it's a normal, I mean, there's different

1:45.4

ways that they can rug-pull. But one of the most common ways would be doing something like

1:49.6

infinite minting, which is basically your tokens are in there and there's a token pair, right?

1:56.0

And so they will print like a billion of this token and sell it. And as a result, it just drains

2:04.0

all the other, the liquidity from the other side out and off they run with it. So that's one way,

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