Nifty News: Azuki founder under fire, CryptoPunk sells for a major loss...

cointelegraph.com:

The founder of the $723.5 million Azuki NFT project who goes by “Zagabond” online caused a sh*tstorm yesterday after revealing that they had previously worked on three noabandoned NFT projects. After facing strong backlash from the NFT community, they have since apologized for their “shortcomings.”

The three projects in question are Tendies and CryptoPunks copycats CryptoPhunks and Cryptozunks. Zagabond suggested all three had failed due to a lack of community support , and other factors such as team members leaving or high gas fees on Ethereum (ETH).

After releasing the blog via Twitter, most replies were in support of Zagabond’s honesty on the trial and error path that led to Azuki NFTs, however other sections of the NFT community weren’t as pleased.

Really don't understand all the FUD.Just like with trading, if one of your projects is underperforming and doing poorly, you should cut your losses.Why continue to build on a failed project and waste more time and effort?

User zachxbt didn’t mince their words when they posted: “So does Web 3.0 = rugging three projects in less than a year?” before going to recount some alleged misdeeds relating to the Cryptozunks developers pretending to be women in a bid to market the project.

Other users like dxv_eth alleged that Zagabond had agreed to build a marketplace for the Cryptozunks project and also purchase Metaverse in a bid to strengthen the ecosystem, but failed to do so before eventually ghosting the community.

After being slammed by the community and holding a Twitter Spaces chat, Zagabond issued an apology earlier today, noting that:

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