vladfun: Two developers hardcoded self-created tokens for preferential display and have been dismissed by the team

Foresight News reports that the token launch platform vladfun on Robinhood Chain announced on Twitter that when the platform launched on July 15, two developers involved in the project secretly launched their own tokens and hardcoded them into the frontend, causing users to only see those tokens at launch while other creators’ tokens remained invisible. The team discovered the anomaly within two hours, immediately dismissed the two developers, removed the malicious code, and recovered part of the funds.

vladfun was rapidly built by a small team of five people within 48 hours. The developers involved initially blamed the issue on RPC failure and caching, but evidence showed that the token was manually hardcoded in the final commit. The developers then requested to disable repository branch protection in order to roll back and delete the related code. Since the team had a full repository timestamp backup, relevant evidence was preserved. At present, the two have returned about 15 thousand US dollars in creator fees and test token proceeds, with the recovered funds being stored in the team’s secure wallet (approximately 7.8 ETH). The team stated that they never agreed to issue a vladfun token and will prioritize addressing the concerns of affected users.