What happened
Quick Summary
NovaMind Token on the Ethereum chain was rug-pulled by the team with a loss of about 23.5 ETH($70,057 USD)
Details of the Exploit
The token deployer sold a significant amount of tokens and performed an exit scam via token dumping on the DEX (Uniswap). Tokens were swapped to 23.52 ETH and then funds were bridged to the Base L2 chain.
Block Data Reference
Scammer:
https://etherscan.io/address/0x96c5ba6b…c3c915
Sell tx:
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x39be1bd4…173a0f
Base chain receiver:
https://basescan.org/address/0x81746420…6cE34d
Case & protocol details
Classification
Token
Protocol Type
Exit Scam/Rugpull
Affected asset / contract
NovaMind
Official Website
site1.nova-coin.net/
Protocol Twitter/X
@NOVAMIND__
Evidence & learning
Sources and on-chain records
- report Report twitter.com
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