06/06/2022 Bored Apes Co-Founder Criticizes Discord After NFTs Worth 200 Ethereum Snatched in Exploit

Others have criticized criticism of the platform, saying it shouldn’t be blamed if not used correctly.

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A co-founder of the popularBored Ape Yacht ClubNFT collection yesterday lashed out at Discord after its server was exploited and NFTs worth 200 Ethereum ($358,962) were stolen from users.

Gordon Goner on Saturday wrote on Twitter that Discord, a chat app popular with the crypto community, “isn’t working for Web3 communities.”

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“We need a better platform that puts security first,” he added.

BAYC acknowledged the exploit on Twitter, adding,“The team caught and addressed it quickly.”

Yuga Labs, the team behind the NFT collection, said it was investigating the incident. But others in the crypto community said the hack was the fault of BAYC Discord users.

“Don’t blame Discord for users getting socially engineered, having DMs open and clicking phishing links,” wrote analyst OKHotshot. “Use the tool correctly first before blaming it.”

While developer Cory.eth, who founded NFT collection OpenAvatar, added that users “just need to use the technology better.”

BAYC is a very sought-after collection of quirky ape profile pictures minted as NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain. Rich and famous people like Eminem, Madonna, and billionaire businessman Mark Cuban haveall snapped them up.

NFTs(non-fungible tokens) are deeds of ownership for digital items, and they're being used by some to helprevolutionize the art and music worlds.

Owners of Bored Apes have access to an exclusive Discord channel where they can discuss the NFTs.

But Saturday’s exploit wasn’t the first time attackers leveraged BAYC’s social media channels. Just last month, BAYC’s official Instagram account washacked, and thieves stolea total of $2.8 million by sharing a link to a scam website that pinched NFTs from users’ wallets.

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Motion Version Part of my moon series. This super rare pearl moon has just washed ashore on a remote tropical island beach, fining one of these rare Jems is like a total worldly treasure! These moons, only fall to earth once in a few million years! When I found this one I felt the luck that is said to come with this pearl moon.
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JosĂ© Delbo sent me his striking pencil sketch and powerful inked work, which I then interpreted in oil on canvas. I wanted to create a very painterly piece with obvious brush marks etc, but I was also aiming for a nostalgic feel, a kind of 1980’s superhero comic book look, the kind I grew up with. My goal with this animation was to try to recreate, in part, the creative process that both artists went through with the visual information I had. I was able to showcase my painting process more accurately as I could take photographs of my progress throughout. Consecutive images could then be layered like brush strokes over José’s drawing to create the impression that this was one continuous artwork from pencil, to ink, to completed painting. The representation of the line sketch at the beginning, then pencil/ink and lastly the paint layers being applied demonstrate both artists’ struggle for the right lines, tone, form, and colour until the work is finally completed. As the oil was still wet with each photograph the glare of my studio lights can be seen in the brush strokes. Eventually, the figure emerges and as it does, our hero comes to life, looking directly at the viewer -- but is he grimacing in approval or disgust? We will never know for sure as just before he can say anything, white paint is brushed across the canvas entirely and the process begins again. Only the bat is quick enough to escape.
Block Chain Dungeon
Once upon a time... a little boy named Leo loved to paint, draw and experiment. He also loved to play with blocks and chains, which drew him again and again into the rooms of his friends Michel and Angelo. Often they also met in virtual rooms of Cryptovoxels, Decentraland, Somnium Space or Sandbox to create new inventions, read books about new technologies, or just swing the brushes. But on this day something gigantic happened. A good friend of Leo came to visit and brought his girlfriend Mona, who wanted a piece of Leo's art on her skin. This was the birth of the NFT's, as Leo developed Non Fungible Tattoos in the Block Chain Dungeon of Michel and Angelo. From that day on people from all over the world came to get NFT's from Leo or one of his students, like "Skeenee the rat", who controls the NFT machine with his laptop. A new age began.