The founding father of NeoNexus, a Solana-based NFT mission, has said the staff is now not creating the mission, blaming the drop in Solana (SOL) costs for the choice.
The mission’s founder, Jack Shi, took to the official Twitter account for NeoNexus, tweeting at 2 pm UTC on March 21 that it was now not persevering with the “wholesome improvement” of the mission, including they wish to hand it over for the group to develop.
It’s with a heavy coronary heart that we should inform you that we are able to now not proceed wholesome improvement of the NEONEXUS mission. We wish to hand over the mission to our group, or a community-selected celebration for takeover if that is possible / doable.
I am deeply sorry,
Jack
— neonexus_world (@neonexus_world) March 21, 2022
Estimates recommend that the mission raised round 25,000 SOL for its NFT mints, which at at present’s costs could be price $2.2 million. With SOL costs climbing to over $150 across the time of the token mints, the mission might have made an estimated $3.5 to $4.5 million.
NeoNexus is a Metaverse mission, that includes each a deliberate utility and governance coin, it had offered over 4,000 “property NFTs”, with the mission planning to supply an extra 6,000 property NFTs, and character, automobile, and accent tokens deliberate for the longer term. The mission at the moment has over 13,000 members in its Discord channel.
In a publish on the mission’s Discord, Shi wrote that the market circumstances have been responsible for the staff halting improvement, with the mission’s funds used to pay wages, tech infrastructure, enterprise charges, and taxes.
“It has been extremely troublesome attempting to develop and proceed our mission on this ecosystem and market circumstances the place the value of SOL has dropped a lot and the exercise, quantity, and curiosity within the entirety of the Solana NFT area has decreased.”
Market circumstances over the previous few months have been uneven, with the value of SOL falling over 50% in 3 months in accordance with knowledge from CoinGecko. It hit a 90 day excessive of simply over $200 in late December and since has steadily fallen to commerce across the $80 mark.
Shi added that over 20 workers members of the mum or dad firm, Unlock Defi, had been laid off as of the top of March, and requested if a group takeover was doable.
Many commenters have accused the mission of committing a “slow-rug”, build up the mission solely to exit, and taking the funds months later.
Rattling that is an enormous sluggish rug
— Keizer166 (@KeizerNFT) March 21, 2022
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Pseudonymous crypto rip-off researcher and author, “zachxbt”, shared screenshots of tweets Shi made in November, displaying the founder sitting in a supercar and boasting of driving in a Lamborghini. Zachxbt used these photos to query how the mission may increase tens of millions solely to expire of funds in just a few months.
So this mission raised $4m from a number of NFT drops and someway runs out of the funds after only a few months?
This is the founder flexing again in November. https://t.co/NzTyumRyuN pic.twitter.com/i7Y45VSAKD
— zachxbt (@zachxbt) March 21, 2022
Varied NFT initiatives marketed their very own choices when responding to the NeoNexus tweet in an try to alleviate the losses some traders might have shouldered as a result of announcement. Many supplied whitelists for upcoming mints to those that responded with “NEONEXUS” on their respective Discord channels.
On the time of writing, the web sites for each the NeoNexus mission and Unlock Defi have been offline. Cointelegraph reached out to Shi and former staff for remark however didn’t instantly hear again.
