- Collusion and non-randomness in PancakeSwap competition winners.
- Half of the winners had linked wallets.
- No response from PancakeSwap on these allegations.
Half of PancakeSwapโs โrandomโ winners are reportedly interconnected wallets, raising concerns about prize fairness. On-chain analysis by League of Traders found 850 out of 1,700 winning wallets exhibited suspicious clustering and BNB trading patterns.
In a PancakeSwap trading competition on the BNB Chain, allegations have arisen regarding collusion among winners. The competition ended with several winnersโ wallets allegedly interconnected, raising questions about the drawโs purported randomness.
Concerns over PancakeSwapโs competition highlight potential integrity issues in decentralized trading, with implications for market trust and potential regulatory scrutiny.
The PancakeSwap competition, involving five Binance Alpha projects, awarded $250,000 in prizes. Questions arose when 850 out of 1,700 winning wallets were found interconnected. These findings, based on on-chain analysis, suggest possible collusion among winners. The PancakeSwap core team remains silent, issuing no public comments about the winner irregularities.
The linked wallets connected through every sponsored token, including League of Traders, Bedrock DAO, and others. League of Traders stated, โThe wallets were directly connected,โ pointing to a lack of randomness.
โThe wallets were directly connected to each other, and they were getting picked. The chance of that happening consecutively is close to zero.โ โ League of Traders Representative
Financial implications are under scrutiny as PancakeSwap remains unresponsive amid these winner clustering allegations.
The dispute raises concerns about decentralized platformsโ oversight and technological vulnerabilities. Potential regulatory and market impacts loom, as investor trust is questioned due to the alleged manipulated outcomes. Despite this, PancakeSwap has made no public comment on addressing Sybil attacks or anti-collusion mechanisms in its ecosystem. As investigations continue, the incident underscores ongoing challenges within the DeFi space related to governance and competition integrity.
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