The Web3 space has seen too many heartbreaks. On August 15, 2025, during a high-profile charity livestream, a ‘$MRBEAST’ token appeared—promising charitable donations while investors watched the project implode within hours. What started as a $7 million market cap turned into a complete collapse, leaving victims with nothing. But this time, someone is actually fighting back.
From words to action: The Tech Fairness Foundation emerges
Rather than accepting these recurring disasters as inevitable, the Fair3 community has taken concrete steps. The Tech Fairness Foundation isn’t another empty initiative—it’s a funded, systematic response to Web3’s persistent unfairness problem. The foundation operates on a simple principle: when scams, manipulations, rug pulls, and black-box operations harm community members, there should be a real mechanism to provide recovery.
This isn’t charity. This is collective justice.
How the first compensation batch works
The MrBeast meme coin rug pull has been selected as the foundation’s inaugural compensation case. Here’s what affected users need to know:
Eligibility Requirements:
Hold both FAIR3 tokens and the MrBeast meme coin at the snapshot moment (August 15, 2025, 6:45 AM UTC+8)
Bind SOL and EVM wallets to the CARV Play platform for on-chain verification
Participate in the CARV Play activity page
Key Dates:
Application window: August 15–20
Review phase: August 20–25
Airdrop completion: By August 31
Compensation Structure:
The foundation has allocated 100,000 FAIR3 tokens for this batch. Eligible victims will receive compensation proportionally based on their FAIR3 holdings, with a safety cap: no single applicant receives more than 10% of the total compensation pool.
What makes the Tech Fairness Foundation different is transparency and sustainability. For each recognized rug event, the foundation deploys 50,000–100,000 FAIR3 from its dedicated compensation reserve. Quarterly, an additional 150,000–300,000 FAIR3 tokens are injected to keep the system operational.
Community-Driven Governance:
This isn’t top-down. The foundation operates through democratic participation:
FAIR3 holders with ≥100,000 tokens can propose new compensation cases
Those with ≥5,000 tokens can vote on proposals
The foundation committee ensures all proposals are properly documented
These numbers back a real fund with real teeth. Every rug pull that gains community recognition triggers a documented response. Every quarter brings fresh capital to the compensation pool.
Why this matters
Web3’s credibility crisis isn’t about technology—it’s about trust. When victims of scams have nowhere to turn, the entire ecosystem suffers. By creating a precedent where harmful actors face consequences and affected users receive support, Fair3 is rewriting what community-driven protection looks like.
Rug pulls won’t disappear overnight. But neither will the response. The Tech Fairness Foundation signals a shift: Web3 no longer has to be a lawless extraction zone. Fairness, finally, has infrastructure behind it.
For those affected by the MrBeast incident, the path to compensation is open. For the broader community, this first batch sets a template for how Web3 can hold itself accountable—not through regulation imposed from outside, but through collective action from within.
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Web3 Victims Finally Get a Shield: Fair3's First Compensation Batch Addresses the MrBeast Meme Coin Collapse
When fairness becomes real, not just rhetoric
The Web3 space has seen too many heartbreaks. On August 15, 2025, during a high-profile charity livestream, a ‘$MRBEAST’ token appeared—promising charitable donations while investors watched the project implode within hours. What started as a $7 million market cap turned into a complete collapse, leaving victims with nothing. But this time, someone is actually fighting back.
From words to action: The Tech Fairness Foundation emerges
Rather than accepting these recurring disasters as inevitable, the Fair3 community has taken concrete steps. The Tech Fairness Foundation isn’t another empty initiative—it’s a funded, systematic response to Web3’s persistent unfairness problem. The foundation operates on a simple principle: when scams, manipulations, rug pulls, and black-box operations harm community members, there should be a real mechanism to provide recovery.
This isn’t charity. This is collective justice.
How the first compensation batch works
The MrBeast meme coin rug pull has been selected as the foundation’s inaugural compensation case. Here’s what affected users need to know:
Eligibility Requirements:
Key Dates:
Compensation Structure:
The foundation has allocated 100,000 FAIR3 tokens for this batch. Eligible victims will receive compensation proportionally based on their FAIR3 holdings, with a safety cap: no single applicant receives more than 10% of the total compensation pool.
Technical Details:
The system behind the mission
What makes the Tech Fairness Foundation different is transparency and sustainability. For each recognized rug event, the foundation deploys 50,000–100,000 FAIR3 from its dedicated compensation reserve. Quarterly, an additional 150,000–300,000 FAIR3 tokens are injected to keep the system operational.
Community-Driven Governance:
This isn’t top-down. The foundation operates through democratic participation:
The bigger picture
Current FAIR3 metrics (as of latest data):
These numbers back a real fund with real teeth. Every rug pull that gains community recognition triggers a documented response. Every quarter brings fresh capital to the compensation pool.
Why this matters
Web3’s credibility crisis isn’t about technology—it’s about trust. When victims of scams have nowhere to turn, the entire ecosystem suffers. By creating a precedent where harmful actors face consequences and affected users receive support, Fair3 is rewriting what community-driven protection looks like.
Rug pulls won’t disappear overnight. But neither will the response. The Tech Fairness Foundation signals a shift: Web3 no longer has to be a lawless extraction zone. Fairness, finally, has infrastructure behind it.
For those affected by the MrBeast incident, the path to compensation is open. For the broader community, this first batch sets a template for how Web3 can hold itself accountable—not through regulation imposed from outside, but through collective action from within.