Crypto Twitter dunks on Richard Heart over a 2-year-old HEX ‘rug pull’
On Sunday, a prominent member-turned-critic of Richard Heart’s HEX community, Eric Wall, tweeted an intraday chart of HEX-on-Ethereum’s collapsing price. He was dunking on Heart for allegedly causing the HEX rug pull and crypto members on X (formerly Twitter) duly dogpiled. They laughed, clicking the Like button on tweets about HEX’s supposed collapse tens of thousands of times. Within hours of Heart’s tweet, HEX -on-Ethereum traded 68% lower. HEX on Ethereum, the "immutable contract", the "it's just you and the code", the "real DeFi" just dumped over -50% because the founder, Richard Heart , tweeted today that he doesn't like it. pic.twitter.com/OV3vDe6bSe — Eric Wall | OP_ (@ercwl) March 10, 2024 Read more: Richard Heart and the curious launch of Hex, Pulse, and PulseX In reality, Heart didn’t rugpull HEX on Sunday. Nor has the value of HEX declined over the past three months. To explain: HEX exists on two blockchains: Ethe...