Unofficial ‘Minecraft’ NFT project ‘Blockverse’ goes quiet after raising £975,000

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Blockverse, an unofficial NFT project for Minecraft, have gone quiet after raising £975,000 through a public mint.On January 23, Blockverse launched their public sale of 10,000 NFTs that would enable owners access to a play-to-earn Minecraft server “allowing for teamwork and competition. $DIAMONDS are generated through combat and playtime,” reads their whitepaper.Costing 0.05 Ethereum (£97) to mint, all the tokens sold out in eight minutes.

However, shortly after that, the Blockverse Discord shut down, as did their official website and their Twitter account hasn’t posted since announcing the sell out in what fans are now calling a rug pull.Taking to Twitter, illiquidassets confirmed that they helped the team behind Blockverse with their marketing, but were also left out of pocket.Starting today, I will be helping to find and hunt down these guys.

I wasn’t given any names as they kept everything very anon from me. For any inquires or info, plz message me here or on discord.

Add me to your chats and I’ll see what I can do in anyway to help (end)— wgmi? (@illiquidassets) January 25, 2022According to Illiquidassets, they paid various influencers to promote Blockverse from their own pocket (“I was told I was going to get reimbursed as soon as they minted out”), got their Twitter up to 10k followers and “even advised them on ways to grow their Discord.”“They not only ghosted the Discord group, but they ghosted me.