A new controversy surrounds the world of collectible tokens in blockchains. The popularity of the NFTs has attracted all kinds of initiatives, including a feminist project that, as its own creators have confessed, was built on a hoax: the “women” behind the Fame Lady Squad were actually men.
A developer named Max Rand acknowledged via Twitter that he was behind the development of this and two other projects of non-fungible tokens (NFT) with a gender focus: Cyber City Girls Club and Unicorn GG Club.
«Guys, I confess. I am the developer of the projects, “Rand wrote on the social network. In his message, he asked “sorry for the lie” and claimed to have previously been very afraid of admitting the deception.
The Fame Lady Squad Twitter account, whose parts are available on the OpenSea market, also posted regarding the hoax. Shortly before deleting the account on the network, they published a thread explaining what happened. In their messages, argued that despite having lied, it was never a scam.
Let’s make it clear: Fame Lady Squad was created by a male team and we are very sorry we didn’t say so sooner. But that does not mean it is a scam or a fraud. We realized that there is an absolute lack of female projects in the space. And since we are really fascinated by the power of women, we made this successful project.
Fame Lady Squad on Twitter.
Almost 2,000 ethers moved in OpenSea
The Fame Lady Squad collection is made up of a total of 8,888 NFT. To date, in OpenSea we find more than 3,000 collectors who have ownership of any piece of the collection.
Fame Lady Squad has moved around 1,900 ethers on said platform, as shown in the screenshot below. That figure is equivalent to about $ 6,210,739, according to data from the CriptoNoticias price calculator, at the time of writing.
According to data from DappRadar, the collection has moved just over 5 million dollars since its creation and is ranked 45th among collections by NFT. This calculation is based on the price of the cryptocurrency at the time of sale of each piece.
Amid a wave of disappointment on the part of investors, who bought the NFTs driven by the nature of the project. , FLS (Fame Lady Squad) prices plummeted. Finally, Rand handed over control of the smart contract that gives life to the project , which is now in the hands of Bored Becky, who was chosen by the same investment community of the collection.
