Oyster Protocol team to do contract swap (PRL token)
Oyster Protocol’s token, PRL was on a huge run from the past four days but just few hours back, the owner of PRL token minted new tokens and started dumping them on Kucoin.
Here is what actually happened to PRL token.
PRL creator wallet called the transferDirector function 6 hours ago, giving himself admin rights and this allowed him to get PRL tokens at ICO price by sending ETH to contract. ICO price was 1 ETH = 5000 PRL / .04 per PRL.
He then, sent them to Kucoin crashed the price and probably ruined the project. They were able to extract ~$300,000.
This has been confirmed by their community manager.
Oyster Protocol smart contract hacked!
Confirmed by Community Manager:
We can confirm someone has taken control of the Smart Contract. Do NOT BUY ANYTHING. We are waiting for more information and also trying out best to close KuCoin’s trading right now!
DO NOT BUY $PRL RIGH…
— MOONPORT (@MoonportCC) October 29, 2018
Here is the weird part – the token is audited by Quantstamp team and even approved by KuCoin exchange. All these things show the loopholes with the cryptocurrencies.
And this is not the first time someone has pulled an exit scam. We were the first to point out exit scam of many ICOs. For instance, Blockbroker ICO pulled an exit scam despite getting audited by popular ICO auditing websites. It got 90% rating by cryptonext and 5 star rating by trackico.io.
Oyster Protocol team to do contract swap
The team has issued a statement on their website that they will be doing a contract swap on the block just prior to this all happening. Token holders will getting new token PEARL in 1:1 ratio.