I Almost Got Rugged — Here’s How I Escaped Losing Thousands in Crypto Scams
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🧵 I Was Almost Rugged — Here's What Saved Me
There’s a moment in every crypto dev’s life when the thrill of decentralization collides head-on with the chaos of human greed.
For me, that moment came on a random Tuesday.
I had just wrapped up a minor contract audit for a DAO spin-off — nothing fancy, just another "OlympusDAO fork" promising to redefine DeFi with buzzwords and bonding curves. But what caught my eye wasn’t the code… it was the Discord.
3,000 people joined in a single weekend.
🚀 "We're going to the moon!"
🐸 "AnubisDAO 2.0!"
🧠 "Backed by Game Theory."
I was curious — too curious, maybe. I sent some ETH to mint their native token just to feel the vibe.
12 Hours Later: $0.00
The project’s Twitter account vanished. Discord disabled replies. The devs — all pseudonymous, of course — went silent. My wallet? Bleeding.
A classic rug pull. 💀
Why Didn’t I See It Coming?
Looking back, all the signs were there:
No smart contract audit
No locked liquidity
Team hiding behind anime avatars
Hype driven by a single influencer
No whitepaper, just a Notion page
I knew better. I’ve been writing Solidity for three years. But the fear of missing out (FOMO) clouded my judgment.
And here's the irony — I almost ignored a tool I had bookmarked months earlier. Something a friend in the CertiK team casually mentioned:
“You should try this. It watches for rug pulls in real time. Super underrated.”
The tool was called SafeRange.
What I Did Differently Next Time
The next month, another flashy token showed up in my feed. Same playbook: pseudonymous team, no audit, 5x price increase in 48 hours.
This time, I ran it through SafeRange before even connecting my wallet.
🚨 Token risk flagged: abnormal liquidity behavior + contract with honeypot patterns.
🟠 Wallet links to 4 other known scam tokens.
⚠️ Volatility warnings: price swings over 42% in less than 2 hours.
I passed.
Two days later? That token was trading at zero.
We Don’t Talk Enough About the Quiet Tools That Save Us
There are dozens of dashboards for TVL, gas fees, tokenomics, and NFT floor prices.
But real-time risk intelligence?
That’s what actually matters when you’re navigating the wild west of DeFi.
I don’t use SafeRange to trade. I use it to not get rugged.
Just like how we use 2FA for logins, or audits for contracts — this one runs silently in the background, catching red flags before your ETH vanishes.
It’s not sexy. But neither is losing your life savings.
Final Thought: You Only Need One Mistake
Crypto doesn’t give second chances. Most people don’t get rugged twice — they just leave for good.
Whether you're a Solidity dev, NFT collector, or yield farmer... you need a way to see trouble coming before it hits.
🔗 I rarely plug tools, but this one genuinely made a difference for me:
Real-time token risk intelligence, free to start → SafeRange
Use it once, and you’ll wonder how you ever minted without it.
– Solidity101
Protect your code. Protect your capital.
✅ Coming up next week:
The code patterns that scream “rug pull” — and how to write Solidity contracts that protect your users.
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