DeFi100, a Crypto Project, Allegedly Scammed Investors of $32 Million

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According to reports and tweets, DeFi100, a cryptocurrency project, allegedly defrauded investors out of $32 million (roughly Rs. 233 crores). The project has now released a denial of the allegations, but some skepticism appears to still exist. After a very distasteful message appeared on their website on Sunday, rumors of people behind the project fleeing with the money began to circulate. The message on the DeFi100 website read, “We scammed you guys, and you can’t do **** about it.” DeFi100 has since clarified that their website has been hacked and that the hackers had placed the post, which has since been removed.

“DeFi100 coin exit scams, and runs away with $32 million, and leaves a message for all of us. Feels like the summer of 2017,” tweeted Cryptokanoon, co-founder Kashif Raza. 

DeFi100 is a cryptocurrency similar to Bitcoin, Dogecoin, and Ethereum, among others. It is, however, much less well-known than the other well-known digital assets. The website was still down at the time of publishing. “Oops, looks like the page is lost. This is not a fault, just an accident that was not intentional,” is what it says now. 

On Sunday, the crypto project announced on its official Twitter account that it had not exited as previously thought. “Firstly, total supply of D100 at present is less than 4 million tokens. At the beginning of the project, total supply was 2.5 million tokens. Secondly, D100 was never a yield farming protocol, which was holding investors funds with TVL over 32 million,” it said in a tweet.