Cryptocurrency

"Inside the Realms of Ruin"

2021-10-21 [vendor] Realms of Ruin fails to launch [chain] solana
Primary Source ↗
Blockchain(s) Solana

Incident Details

Six popular young-adult fiction writers attempted to launch an NFT project where they created a base universe, and participants would contribute their own stories (which they would mint as NFTs) that would be added to the official storyline if the authors liked them enough. Questions around who would own copyright, how teenagers (the target audience) would obtain cryptocurrency and mint NFTs, and environmental impact led the creators to shutter the project only five hours after the launch announcement went out.

Technical Details

Vendor / Product
Realms of Ruin fails to launch

Timeline

  1. 2021-10-21 Breach occurred
  2. 2021-10-21 Publicly disclosed