On Sunday, November 27th, blockchain and ERC-721A developer ‘cygaar’ took to Twitter to make claims that wETH would soon be insolvent. He tweeted:
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The joke caught more attention after Ethereum bull Anthony Sassano reacted to cygaar, stating “A person I have known for more than ten years … I don’t know anything concrete, but if I were exposed, I would be concerned.”
Since a great portion of the crypto community was unaware of the joke, it quickly turned into FUD. Justin Sun and Vitalik Buterin, founders of Ethereum and Tron, have also joined the insolvency joke.
Joining in and citing a tweet about wETH’s “insolvency”, Sun said he had “discussed with my BFF Vitalik Buterin and together we will invest $2b into WEF to recover all the funds.”
Buterin, replying to Sun, said wETH and WEF sound very similar. Crypto users on Twitter, who have failed to understand that the $2 billion for WEF (World Economic Forum) is part of the joke, have asked if “we’re buying WEF Coin?”
After remaining relatively stable over the weekend, the crypto market has lost ground as the FUD spreads. Bitcoin and Ethereum dropped by over 3% and 4%, with Huobi Token being the biggest loser with -12% in the last 24 hours.
The FUD surrounding wETH shows how easily the crypto market reacts to news and the effect crypto influencers have on the market.
Find out more about wETH below:
Coin Healthcheck: Wrapped ETH (WETH)
Find out what Buterin said about the crash in:
Ethereum (ETH) Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin Says There Are Lessons To Learn From The FTX Collapse
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Source: Cryptocurrency - investing.com
