It is a type of scam where the developers quit a project and take the money of their investors. It is a malicious maneuver in the crypto industry. It usually occurs in the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem, especially on the DEXs where the threat actors create a token and list it on the DEX and then follows pairing it up with a leading cryptocurrency such as Ethereum (ETH).
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