Rug Pull Museum
11 ARTICLESThe greatest rug pulls in crypto history. Preserved so you never fall for the same trick twice.
BitConnect: The $2.6 Billion Ponzi That Became a Meme
Hey hey heyyyy! The Ponzi scheme that became crypto's most famous meme.
OneCoin: The $4 Billion Fake Cryptocurrency
The $4 billion crypto that never had a blockchain. The 'Cryptoqueen' is still missing.
Squid Game Token: The Token You Literally Could Not Sell
It pumped 75,000% in a week. Then the devs pulled the plug and nobody could sell.
Thodex: Turkey's Exchange CEO Fled With $2 Billion
On April 20, 2021, 391,000 Turkish crypto users discovered their exchange had vanished overnight. The CEO was on a flight to Albania.
Iron Finance: When TITAN Went From $64 to Zero in Hours
Mark Cuban was farming 206% annualized yields on a DeFi protocol backed by a token that went to zero overnight. He called it the world's first large-scale crypto bank run.
Celsius Network: $4.7 Billion Frozen, Trust Shattered
'Unbank yourself.' Then they froze your funds and filed for bankruptcy.
Three Arrows Capital: The $3.5B Fund That Gambled and Lost
The 'genius' hedge fund that leveraged its way to a $3.5 billion implosion.
LUNA / UST: The $40 Billion Death Spiral
The $40 billion algorithmic stablecoin that 'mathematically could not fail.' It failed in 72 hours.
Frosties NFT: The $1.1M Ice Cream Rug That Changed the Rules
Ethan Nguyen and Andre Llacuna sold 8,888 ice cream NFTs, deleted their Discord 25,000-person server, and vanished within an hour. The DOJ came for them anyway.
SafeMoon: 'SafeMoon Is Safe' - It Wasn't
The 'community token' whose founders were secretly draining the liquidity pool.
NYC Token: The Bitcoin Mayor's $600 Million Speed Run
Eric Adams launched a crypto token in Times Square to 'fight antisemitism.' It hit $600M market cap, then lost 80% in under an hour. The entire crypto scam cycle compressed into one afternoon.