vladfun Developer Fired for Hardcoding Self-Created Token

On July 15, the token launch platform vladfun on Robinhood Chain went live, during which two developers secretly launched their own token and hardcoded it into the frontend, causing users to only see that token while other creators' tokens were invisible. The team discovered the anomaly within 2 hours, immediately fired the two developers, removed the malicious code, and recovered some funds. vladfun was rapidly built by a small team of 5 people within 48 hours. The involved developers initially blamed the issue on RPC failures and caching, but evidence showed that the token was manually hardcoded in the final submission. The developers then requested to disable repository branch protection to roll back and delete the related code. The team has completed a timestamp backup of the entire repository to retain relevant evidence. Currently, the two have refunded approximately $15,000 in creator fees and testing token profits, with the recovered funds deposited into the team's secure wallet (about 7.8 ETH). The team stated that they never agreed to issue the vladfun token and will prioritize addressing the concerns of affected users.

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