NFT Rugpull: Bored Bunny NFT project drains out 2000 ETH; Floor price drops to 0.59 ETH

Bored Bunny, an NFT project launched on January 5th i.e earlier today had raised nearly 2,000 ETH during the first few hours of it going live. However, now the project has drained out all the raised ETH, and nearly 800 ETH has been transferred to Binance. The project has muted all its channels on Discord and the floor price for the project fell to 90.59 ETH.

#scammer #scammers

昨晚火爆的 #BoredBunny（3D无聊兔）

推特ID:@BoredBunnyNFT
DC:https://t.co/y5z6vjPydp
官网:https://t.co/emZwy23skw
OS:https://t.co/0RE8I9CGTi
合约地址:0x9372b371196751dd2F603729Ae8D8014BbeB07f6

— rnmtq.eth (@0xRNMTQ) January 5, 2022

This would be the sec0nd NFT rugpull scam within a week raising alarms in the NFT community. Earlier m0st of these scams especially rug pulls were associated with the Defi market, while the NFT ecosystem has seen a bunch of counterfeit scams.

Just a couple of weeks ago, Twitch founder’s NFT platform Fractal suffered a $150K loss on debut when a hacker manager to pull a Discord hack on the platform. A fake Discord bot disguised as an official fractal bot encouraged people to mint nearly 3333 NFTS for 1 Solana and nearly 3500 people fell prey to it and lost nearly $600,000.

Well, @justinkan's @fractalwagmi is going well…

Their actual Discord Bot was hacked encouraging people to mint 3333 NFTs for 1 Solana (worth $177 each).

But the link is to Fractai, not Fractal… 3294 just lost nearly $600,000 combined. pic.twitter.com/mnSaa0wOnp

— Zach Bussey (@zachbussey) December 21, 2021

NFT hacks on the rise

Non Fungible Tokens have been a part of the crypto ecosystem since 2012 and even though it gained some traction in terms of adoption by 2019, 2021 proved to be the breakout year. The NFT ecosystem grew to become a multi-billion dollar industry and today many popular NFT collections boast floor prices as high as $4 million. However, as has been the case with most popular use cases in crypto, they also become a point of attraction for scammers.

Defi which had a similar breakout in 2020 has been associated with 75% of the scams in 2021 that collectively lost billions. The rising number of NFT scams and hacks also indicates a similar high. As of today the top NFT auction platform based on Ethereum sees nearly $3 billion in trading volume each month. The firm also raised over $300 million in Series C funding, giving it a valuation of over $13 billion, making it one of the most prominent NFT firms and a unicorn today. OpenSea’s valuation also reflects how fast the NFT system has evolved.