Nima Capital goes dark after dumping 9M SYN tokens, community calls it VC rug
The price of the native token of the decentralized finance (DeFi) cross-chain bridge Synapse (SYN) plummeted on Sept. 5 after an unknown liquidity provider on the platform dumped nearly 9 million SYN tokens and pulled all stablecoin liquidity from the bridge.
The official X account for Synapse acknowledged the liquidity rug by an “unknown liquidity provider,” while clarifying that the Synapse bridge didn’t face any security breach.
A Synapse liquidity provider sold their SYN tokens and removed liquidity today. We're investigating unusual activity on their wallets and are working to get in touch with them. Will update once there is more info.
There was no security breach of the protocol or bridge.
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The unknown liquidity provider in question was traced to Nima Capital, one of the long-term capital partners of the project. The venture capital firm had received a grant from the project in return for locking $40 million worth of liquidity in SYN. Etherscan data suggests the unknown whale that dumped the SYN token received 10 million SYN ($3.4 million) from the “Synapse: Executor 2” wallet on April 5 and currently holds no SYN tokens in the wallet.
The VC firm rug pulled its users just eight months before the agreed governance proposal. This became evident after the Nima Capital website went offline and the project also locked its X (formerly Twitter), going dark online, prompting many to call it a VC rug.
Even VCs are rugging now @NimaCapital dumped 9M $SYN and removed all stablecoin liquidity 8 months before the agreed gov proposal
Their site went offline and twitter protected too https://t.co/ShlYcZhFbz pic.twitter.com/1ncxP13XYV
Rug pulls are quite a common form of scam in DeFi ecosystems, where the project creators or developers
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