📉 Rug projects are steadily eating away at investor trust.

Who would have thought that in 2026, a project's “whitepaper” could be part of the scam.

Recently, $TROVE went live and in just a few hours its market cap dropped from $20 million to under $950k. The team sold $10 million worth of HYPE, delayed the ICO and then reversed the delay, and threw Polymarket predictions into chaos.

Worse, on-chain data shows angel round funds flowing straight into a casino. Nothing about this went right, the whole process was a mess.

This chaos highlights a few key risks that could affect anyone holding tokens:

• Most tokens are concentrated in a few wallets, liquidity is extremely low, and prices can swing wildly
• The project suddenly switched from Hyperliquid to Solana, triggering panic selling
• ICO delays and Polymarket manipulation caused many people to chase false signals and lose money

This is a wake-up call. Looking back, the entire $TROVE process was chaotic from start to finish. Before buying in, it’s crucial to watch the chain, see who is moving tokens, and don’t follow hype blindly, or you can lose everything in just a few hours.

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