CoinMarketCap allegedly lists 3 fake SHIB contract addresses, Twitter firestorm ensues

Jan 15, 2022

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A bit Twitter drama ensued on Thursday, persevering with nicely into Friday afternoon, when builders behind widespread meme token Shiba Inu (SHIB) issued an announcement alleging that CoinMarketCap had listed three pretend SHIB contract addresses belonging to the Binance Sensible Chain (BNB), Solana (SOL), and Terra Luna (LUNA) blockchains. The workers at Shiba Inu claimed that the addresses had been unsafe and that CoinMarketCap had refused to right the alleged mistake. On the time of publication, the contract addresses are nonetheless viewable on CoinMarketCap.

Earlier within the day, CoinMarketCap issued a response claiming that the contract addresses listed on the web page are wormhole addresses designed to facilitate cross-chain transactions. According to the favored crypto price-tracking website, the workers at Shiba Inu didn’t undergo official channels to contact them and have reached out for larger clarification.

Whereas Shytoshi Kusama, volunteer challenge lead for Shiba Inu, didn’t touch upon the problem, the developer retweeted a publish from Twitter person @wenfloat, who mentioned:

“If you’re going to enable scammers so as to add false contracts in our web page (WE ARE ONLY ERC-20), it is best to delist SHIB. At the very least you will not be collaborating with scams. You have ignored us for months; the place’s your professionalism?”

Shiba Inu is understood for its stellar token features over the previous 12 months, in addition to its (generally overly) enthusiastic traders. Final December, former SHIB influencer and Medical Q&A platform Ask the Physician filed a lawsuit in opposition to Shytoshi Kusama, alleging libel, and threatened to disclose his private id in courtroom. In response, the positioning misplaced roughly 10,000 followers out of 58,000 inside hours and had its Twitter posts buried in a flurry of ridicule, together with a whole lot of one-star opinions on TrustPilot (most of which have since been eliminated).