2026-01-12 22:20:35

Recently, the crypto world has once again played out a story where reality surpasses fiction. A wallet, through early investments in a frog-themed token, turned a $27 principal into $67 million. It sounds like a feel-good story, but the true ending is much colder—this $67 million is real, but also truly "out of reach." The wallet has been locked, unable to sell, transfer, or exchange, trapped inside a digital cage.

As someone who has been navigating the crypto space for many years, I have to say frankly: this is not an accident, but an inevitable risk of Meme coin speculation. Too many people rush in thinking "make a quick profit and then leave," but never ask the most critical question—who actually controls the token you hold?

Stop believing in the idea that "private keys in hand mean assets are yours." The core of this incident is actually very simple: absolute control over contract permissions. The project team used a blacklist feature to directly prohibit all operations of this wallet at the contract level. To put it another way, it's like buying a house with the property deed in your name, but the developer kept a master key—whenever they want, they can weld your front door shut. What you think of as "asset ownership" is actually just a string of data within someone else's rule framework.

Here are some practical tips for friends still mining for gold in Meme coins. Before interacting with any token, at least pass these three verification steps—skip any step, don't proceed: First, check whether the contract code is open source and verifiable; second, examine the contract permissions configuration...

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DaoResearcher

· 01-15 22:19

According to the Tokenomics model in the white paper, this is the result of governance failure caused by asymmetric permissions. From the data performance, the blacklist mechanism essentially violates the fundamental principle of decentralization. It is worth noting that the enforcement rights at the contract level should have been locked by governance proposals long ago. Discovering the problem only now is already too late—this reflects the endogenous fragility of the DAO governance mechanism. Citing Vitalik's view, decentralization only holds when users truly understand that code is law; otherwise, it is pseudo-decentralization, no different from Web2. The case of $67 million being frozen perfectly demonstrates my previous hypothesis—that outcomes caused by incentive incompatibility are inevitably zero-sum games. Having the private key ≠ asset security. This proposition is directly invalidated in the face of highly permissioned contract designs. I recommend everyone read the permissions configuration section of the project white paper first.

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ChainWanderingPoet

· 01-15 06:01

Damn, it's the same old blacklist trick, everyone should have known by now. Alright, I've been educated this time. I need to change my habit of chasing meme coins. 70 million is visible but can't be touched, that's the most heartbreaking part. Every day shouting about private key freedom, but in the end, people still set traps. Being stuck at the contract level is really unexpected and caught me off guard. Next time, check the code first before rushing in, or else I'll face the same fate. That's why I look down on people who chase high prices now. Getting a bargain and pretending to be innocent, meme coins are basically a casino.

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MetaNeighbor

· 01-13 18:10

I feel sorry for this guy... turning 27 bucks into 67 million, only to get locked out in the end. How ironic is that?

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gas_fee_trauma

· 01-12 22:50

Wow, is this the legendary paper wealth... visible but unattainable, more painful than losing money

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BankruptcyArtist

· 01-12 22:50

70 million visible but intangible—that's the truth about meme coins. Wake up, everyone.

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AllTalkLongTrader

· 01-12 22:50

Damn, turning 27 bucks into 67 million and still can't access the money, this is just outrageous. Wait, blacklist lock? Isn't that the project team reserving the power to give and take life and death? Who can handle that? Isn't that how meme coins work? The price of quick profits is having no rights, just for fun. Open-source and verifiable contract code is so crucial. Most people just go all in without checking, serves them right. I've seen similar situations before, just thinking about it makes me angry. The digital cage is so vivid. Having the private key in hand ≠ truly yours. This statement is harsh but true.

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BagHolderTillRetire

· 01-12 22:49

Oh my god, 27 yuan turned into 67 million and then got locked again. How desperate is that? By the way, this is exactly why I avoid Meme coins now. Contract permissions are really hard to guard against. Private key in hand? Haha, as soon as they activate the blacklist, you can't do anything. This is yet another bloody lesson; I need to carefully check the contract code. Feels like every time someone gets off the bus and slams the door in our face to watch the show. Actually, the key is not to all-in on one coin; diversification is the real strategy. Another case of being trapped; I advise beginners not to follow suit. You really need to understand the tricks of contracts, or you'll just be slaughtered. Seeing this, I think of those rug pull projects before—so similar. Investing early and making money doesn't help; in the end, it all returns to zero. Our circle is like this; sometimes visible wealth is even more painful than invisible wealth.

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DeFiChef

· 01-12 22:47

Damn, that's why I don't touch unverified contracts anymore. No matter how tempting the returns are, they're all the same.

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GateUser-cff9c776

· 01-12 22:26

Schrödinger's 67 million, this is the perfect embodiment of the decentralization spirit of web3, friends. Pull the blacklist, and the private key is also given away. This story is about the power vacuum under the supply and demand curve. Another classic "bubble period artwork," but I still think we need to look at contract permissions before making a judgment. A higher floor price is useless; the key is whether you can withdraw or not. This is a pseudo-proposition. Even Buffett would say it's good—what a joke. This is the real scene of DAO governance failure. So, don't be blinded by short-term gains; the real issue lies in permission design. 67 million trapped on the chain, a digital age Da Vinci's cage. How to put it, this perfectly illustrates the bear market philosophy—visible wealth is true wealth.

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