Uniswap’s founder, Hayden Adams, recently took to Twitter to expose an elaborate scam targeting the Chinese cryptocurrency community. The scam involves a fake fork of the Uniswap website and purportedly features a one-hour Zoom recording with individuals impersonating Uniswap executives.
Adams clarified that neither he nor any official representatives from Uniswap or the Uniswap Foundation had any connection to the suspicious activities unfolding on the platform. “Video is nuts. No idea who any of those people are. Def not associated with @Uniswap or @UniswapFND. Assuming it’s some sort of scam,” he tweeted.
In a subsequent tweet, the Uniswap founder outlined the extent of the effort put into the scam. “Some next level effort went into this scam. They built a fork of our website (domain takedown pending) that adds Chinese community content and links to the real Uniswap app. And did an hour long zoom recording with real fake…
