"CEASEFIRE": Freshest Kicks Metadata Leak Sparks Day-Long Conversations And A Call For Calm On ApeChain

Husband-and-wife duo behind Freshest Kicks, CherryD and Sonzi, took to the timeline today with some unfortunate news that set the ApeChain space ablaze. The metadata for their project, Fresh Kix, was leaked, allowing a select few to snipe rare NFTs on the secondary before the official reveal.

 

On Thursday, Freshest Kicks accused James LympoDAO of leaking the metadata earlier this week ahead of their Fresh Kix sneaker project's reveal.

 

“So basically what we have discovered what happened is that  @James_LympoDAO got access to the metadata and shared with his Alphabanana team, in turn they got sniped and stolen basically from people who should have a fair chance in this mint,” Freshest Kicks tweeted “This was brought to the attention in Geists reveal party space when a brave soul noticed something fishy and brought it to everyones attention. (thank-you for putting yourself out there ...this is what we need in this space). Then when we didn't get any messages for custom orders for the shoes or didn't see excitment about the mythics we were trying to figure out what happened. The reason this has been taking us so long to get this information out to everyone is because we didn't want to point blame until we got down to the bottom of it and looked into all possibilities of how this could of happened. James has admitted what happened and he had the mythics in his wallet. We asked to get them back and we can distribute to the community, but he will not as there's all kinds of excuses. Now he says they are in the teams minters wallet.”

 

After Freshest Kicks’ post, James LympoDAO replied in the comments. He apologized, said the mint was still fair, and that the Mythics had been returned.

 

“1) Thanks for the clarification , apprechiate it and sorry again Will anyway clear the small errors,” he wrote.  “2) The Team had mainly access as we used our Standard Google share which we used for all daily things like WL and else too since weeks and that we came unplanned short before the planned Mint to the Dev and Generating situation and used this share out of best practice unchanged. 3) The Mint was 100% integer by Blever and fair, this was only on 2ndary so every one minted what he should have minted and all had the same fair chance on the Mint 4) I already sended you around 5 hours ago a message in our Groupchat and informed Blever as made a Announcement that the Assets are returned already and not anymore in the team Wallets.”

 

Yuga Labs CEO Garga Chimed in calling what happend to Freshest Kicks' "gross."

"Really gross, sorry you guys are dealing with this," he tweeted. "Sounds like the mints were now returned? Lmk if I can help in any way."

The controversy dominated the timeline on Thursday, sparking heated Twitter Spaces and bringing long-simmering frustrations to the surface.

 

While many were left feeling drained, others saw something encouraging in how the community responded.

ApeChain Head of Business Development, Blockchainzilla, tweeted that it was “pretty cool” to see so many people care about the future of $APE.

 

“I’ve been lurking in spaces between meetings today and I hope people realize that huge swaths of the community coming together, hashing it out, giving each other shit, and laying their thoughts and feelings out is not something that would happen anywhere else, “ he said. “You don't see communities come together after a scam or issue and seriously debate how to protect each other and prevent things happening in the future. I think that's honestly pretty cool.”

Following Thursday’s Spaces, NFT launch platform Blever, which handled the Fresh Kix mint, announced that it will be improving security for future drops.

“Following the recent events, we are working on implementing additional measures to prevent this from happening again, the project tweeted. “Even though we were not at fault here, our goal was, is, and will always be to provide the best experience for both creators and collectors. We are supporting the team as best we can”

 

Geez On Ape founder Rida also stepped in to host a four-hour-plus Space titled “ApeChain CEASEFIRE!”, where he and other leaders urged $Apes and Apes to talk out their issues and remember they’re stronger together.

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