Разработчики aPriori пропали после скандала с подозрительным аирдропом Translation: Developers of aPriori go silent following scandal over suspicious airdrop

The developers of the aPriori project have been unresponsive amid discussions surrounding a suspicious token airdrop of APR tokens. This information was shared by on-chain investigator ZachXBT.

The expert reached out to the project’s founder, but received no reply.

The issue stemmed from a study conducted by Bubblemaps, which revealed that around 60% of the coins allocated for the airdrop ended up in the hands of a single individual controlling 14,000 wallets.

Analysts noted that all addresses involved in this scheme concurrently funded their wallets through Binance with minimal amounts of 0.001 BNB. After receiving the APR tokens, they all simultaneously transferred their shares to new wallets.

The unknown individual continued to create new addresses even after the initial airdrop round, systematically increasing their share.

Previously, suspicious activity was pointed out by DL News, which raised the possibility of a Sybil attack and insider trading.

According to Bubblemaps, the team distributed the tokens on October 23—shortly after BNB’s market capitalization exceeded $300 million. They allocated 12% of the total APR supply for the airdrop.

aPriori is one of the largest protocols built on the L1 blockchain Monad, whose mainnet is set to launch on November 24. The project was founded in 2023 by former quantum traders and engineers from Coinbase, Jump Trading, and Citadel Securities.

In August 2024, the platform raised $20 million to expand its trading infrastructure. The funding round included participants such as Pantera Capital, HashKey Capital, Primitive Ventures, and YZi Labs.

“An early TGE on an external platform in the absence of a functional proprietary blockchain is a classic red flag indicating potential fraud,” noted ZachXBT.

At the time of writing, the APR token is trading around $0.20. Its price has dropped more than 10% over the last week.

According to CoinGecko, the asset’s market capitalization exceeds $48.7 million, with a daily trading volume of $7.9 million.

It is worth recalling that in April, experts confirmed the involvement of insiders in the collapse of the Mantra token, with the RWA project team and market makers manipulating liquidity metrics of the failed OM token.