In quick
- A Solana wallet of DeGods creator Frank (aka Rohun Vora) was jeopardized, with 16 NFTs rapidly sold.
- The popular crypto character dismissed reports he offered the NFTs after leaving the task’s CEO function today.
- The DeGods flooring cost was once again than $37,000 on Solana, now sits simply above $1,000.
Simply days after DeGods creator Frank (aka Rohun Vora) stated he was stepping far from the CEO function, an overall of 16 DeGods NFTs from his Solana wallet were offered into open market quotes– a relocation he validated originated from an opponent through a jeopardized trading laptop computer.
The harmful star had the ability to acquire more than 108 SOL, or almost $19,000, for the taken NFTs, that included a DeGod with a legendary helmet— among the rarest qualities in the collection.
Some traders on X (previously Twitter) fasted to think that Frank was selling his DeGods possessions after revealing his departure from the management position, with 2 other neighborhood members now running the task. However he informed Decrypt that’s not real.
” Truthfully, it’s simply silly,” Frank informed Decrypt on Thursday. “The headings are clearly amusing, however to be clear, I have no intents to offer any of my DeGods holdings and am truthfully positive the group will prepare.”
In a message shared to the DeGods Discord and reshared with Decrypt, the previous CEO stated he’s still attempting to comprehend exactly what occurred, however thinks the concern was consisted of to one wallet.
” It might have been much, much even worse,” he informed Decrypt, including that he’ll be renovating all his functional security after the event.
The general public understood the now-hacked wallet address came from the DeGods creator as early as October, after it was shared by Frank himself as he started to get considerable attention for his meme coin trading success.
And though he’s now lost 16 NFTs, he informed Decrypt he has a lot more DeGods NFTs in other wallets– which there were other possible methods to benefit with that jeopardized wallet, even more distancing himself from the conspiracy theories swirling on social networks.
” If somebody wished to utilize that wallet to earn money, there are way more effective methods of doing that, like introducing a coin or purchasing lowcaps to offer on copytraders,” he stated.
Frank shared another among his Solana addresses that holds more than $50,000 worth of the DeGods Solana community token, DEGOD, declaring his dedication to the brand name in spite of no longer holding the CEO status.
In his stead, pseudonymous staff member Pasta and Chill will run the task.
” I’m thrilled to hand the reins to the group and see them prepare,” he published on Monday “Perhaps we’ll recall at this fixation on ‘Frank DeGods’ as the important things that was holding us back.”
i committed 3 years of sleep deprived nights attempting to make DeGods & & y00ts a success. i take pride in the work i did.
i’m thrilled to hand the reigns to the group and see them prepare.
perhaps we’ll recall at this fixation on “frank degods” as the important things that was holding us back.
— Frank (@frankdegods) May 12, 2025
Frank resurfaced today to reveal his departure on X, however had actually formerly vanished for months from the social networks website where he grew his following to more than 420,000 fans, last publishing in February as speculation magnified around his meme coin trading and connections to other traders.
DeGods, which started as a NFT task on the Solana blockchain, progressed into among crypto’s most wild neighborhoods, broadening its community to consist of a buddy collection and Bitcoin Ordinals collection The task even invested into a share of a group in Ice’s BIG3 basketball league, back in 2022
The brand name handled debate in the middle of its choice to move blockchains numerous times, and was not able to leave the falling need that has actually rocked all NFT jobs in some type given that the preliminary 2021-22 bull run faded.
The collection held a flooring cost, or the most affordable market listing cost, of more than $37,000 on Solana in 2023. It now sits at simply over $1,000.
Modified by Andrew Hayward
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