BALD token developer denies rug pull as price falls 85% post-launch
A new memecoin on Coinbase’s Base network fell 85% after its developer allegedly pulled liquidity of 1,034 Ether (ETH), worth approximately $1.9 million, from the market, according to social media reports. The developer for BALD denied making any market sales of the coin, stating that they “only added/removed 2 sided liquidity and bought.”
Watching the $BALD chart pic.twitter.com/2lc0HEVlNu
Blockchain data shows that the deployer removed liquidity of 374 ETH (approximately $696,598).
Coinbase’s Base network was launched for builders on July 13. However, its development team has urged ordinary users not to use the network, as it lacks a functioning user interface (UI) for its bridge. The team plans to officially release the network to users in August, at which point a bridge UI will be made available.
Despite these warnings, some investors have sought early returns by buying up assets on the network before it is officially launched. They've done so by using development tools to bridge ETH from Ethereum to Base without a UI.
On July 29, a pseudonymous developer with the Twitter handle “Bald” announced the launch of the BALD token on Base network at address 0x27D2DECb4bFC9C76F0309b8E88dec3a601Fe25a8.
The token gained 289,000% within the first 14 hours of trading. But on July 31, Twitter users began reporting that the token's deployer account had removed 1,034 ETH in liquidity, causing its price to fall to nearly zero.
$BALD deployer just removed 1034 ETH from Liquidity Others removed 6,800 eth and 1800 ETH from liq as well https://t.co/A2357QUF0H pic.twitter.com/4lH8LHxv2v
In a social media post, the BALD developer denied selling tokens through a market order, stating, “I didn't sell a single token at any point since deployment.
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