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Users call ‘rug pull’ as $Univ loses 100% of its value in 24 hours

By Aaron Woolner

03:10, 25 April 2022

‘Rug pull’ in yellow on a black background
Users call ‘rug pull’ as $Univ loses 100% of its value in 24 hours – Photo: Shutterstock

Crypto investors are crying ‘rug pull’ after the value of digital coin $Univ with CoinMarketCap data showing that its value has fallen 100% over the previous 24 hours.

The crypto data site said $Univ’s current market capitalization ranking is 3860, with a live market cap not available. 

“The circulating supply is not available and the max supply is not available,” the website reports.

According to the coin’s coin’s website, Universe was: “A blazingly fast and innovative DaaS on the Avalanche (AVAX) network. Passive income up to 1,113% APR, NFTs, Sustainability & Metaverse in your pocket.”

AVAX to US dollar (AVAX/USD)

DaaS stands for Desktop as a Service, and is a cloud computing offering where a service provider delivers virtual desktops to end users over the Internet, licensed with a per-user subscription.

Over on Twitter, $Univ’s founder, who goes by the handle @cattyverse, said that they had woken up to discover the collapse in value but warned users not to buy or trade the coin.

In a subsequent tweet @cattyverse said that the backers were working on a solution and that there was still value linked to AVAX within the project.

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“Another DaaS protocol rugged”

Twitter users were not convinced with one person, tweeting under the name of Johnny Crypto describing its “another DaaS protocol rugged”.

DOGE/USD

0.22 Price
+17.090% 1D Chg, %
Long position overnight fee -0.0753%
Short position overnight fee 0.0069%
Overnight fee time 21:00 (UTC)
Spread 0.0012872

BCH/USD

574.90 Price
+6.210% 1D Chg, %
Long position overnight fee -0.0753%
Short position overnight fee 0.0069%
Overnight fee time 21:00 (UTC)
Spread 2.50

XRP/USD

0.63 Price
+1.980% 1D Chg, %
Long position overnight fee -0.0753%
Short position overnight fee 0.0069%
Overnight fee time 21:00 (UTC)
Spread 0.01168

BTC/USD

70,894.95 Price
+2.820% 1D Chg, %
Long position overnight fee -0.0616%
Short position overnight fee 0.0137%
Overnight fee time 21:00 (UTC)
Spread 106.00

A rug pull is when a developer suddenly abandons a crypto token, typically on the decentralized finance (DeFi) network, and takes all attached funds with them.

Chainalysis estimated that $2.8bn was lost to rug pulls last year, 90% of which was down to the Theodex Exchange rug pull which saw the CEO of a Turkish crypto exchange disappear after a trading halt.

If it: “Sounds too good to be true, it probably is”

“18k holders taken advantage of because they trusted a “fully doxxed” team that had 100% controlled of the treasury. But all their info was easily available on their discord right? Stay away from all “as-a-service” protocols,” said Johnny Crypto. 

The North American Securities Association warns about crypto scams that if something: “Sounds too good to be true, it probably is”. 

By comparison with the returns promised by $Univ’s backers, the US 10 Year Treasury yield, often referred to as the ‘risk free rate’ of return, is currently about 2.9%.

Rug - pulled 

Nearly two months later @Cattyverse’s twitter account no longer exists. According to data from CoinMarketCap there have been regular trades since the 24 April apparent rug pull and one one day @UNIV was top riser, seeing its price increase 42% on 7 June. 

But volumes are tiny. Trades conducted on June 19 worth were less than one dollar. 

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Avalanche / USD
54.9692 USD
0.1962 +0.360%

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