{"id":439813,"date":"2024-08-21T20:15:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T19:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/?p=439813"},"modified":"2024-08-21T19:34:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T18:34:25","slug":"hackers-compromise-mcdonalds-instagram-account-to-conduct-700k-rug-pull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/hackers-compromise-mcdonalds-instagram-account-to-conduct-700k-rug-pull\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers compromise McDonald\u2019s Instagram account to conduct $700k rug pull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fast food chain McDonald's\u2019 Instagram profile promoted a scam memecoin deployed on Solana (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/coins\/solana\/\">SOL<\/a><\/strong>) after being compromised. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The token \u2014 called GRIMACE \u2014 hit a $25 million market capitalization within two hours of its launch before it was rugged and lost more than 95% of its value.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The scammers, who identified themselves as &#8220;India_X_Kr3w,&#8221; claim to have snagged roughly $700,000 from investors who believed the memecoin was an official McDonald's\u2019 token. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GRIMACE was deployed via Pump.fun and quickly reached the bonding curve limit to be deployed on Raydium.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Notably, DEX Screener data shows that the token managed to amass nearly $20 million in trading volume within two hours. Additionally, investors seem to keep betting on the token, as the liquidity from the pool on Raydium is growing despite the rug pull.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It took nearly two hours for McDonald's to recover access to the account, and all posts related to the memecoin have been deleted as of press time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Memecoin frenzy continues<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/solscan.io\/analytics\">Solscan<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a daily average of over 17,400 tokens were deployed on Solana in the past 23 days, indicating that the memecoin frenzy is still in full swing on the network.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most of this intense memecoin creation can be attributed to Pump.fun, especially after the platform slashed its fees for token creation <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/pumpdotfun\/status\/1821699366630879383\">while adding<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a 0.5 SOL reward for tokens that are successfully launched on Raydium.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite the platform's best efforts, the so-called &#8220;trenches&#8221; are still vicious. According to a Dune Analytics <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dune.com\/evelyn233\/pump-data\">dashboard<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> created by user evelyn233, only 1.39% of over 1.8 million tokens created so far on Pump.fun have successfully completed the bonding curve.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This means that nearly 99% of all memecoins created on the Solana-based marketplace fizzled out and left investors with losses. Meanwhile, Pump.fun's revenue in fees stands at roughly 645,580 SOL, equivalent to nearly $100 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a result, Solana <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/defillama.com\/dexs\/chains\">dominated<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the monthly traded volume registered by DEXs in July, hitting $57.3 billion \u2014 surpassing Ethereum by nearly $3 billion.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fast food chain McDonald&#8217;s\u2019 Instagram profile promoted a scam memecoin deployed on Solana (SOL) after being compromised. The token \u2014 called GRIMACE \u2014 hit a $25 million market capitalization within two hours of its launch before it was rugged and lost more than 95% of its value. 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