DeFiLlama Sacrificed Real Crypto to Force Apple Into Action
DeFiLlama's team loaded a wallet with real crypto, handed it to a counterfeit version of their own app, and watched the money vanish. Apple removed the scam listing days later.
Months of trademark and impersonation complaints had achieved nothing. Only documented theft moved Apple's reviewers, according to a post from DeFiLlama developer 0xngmi.
How the Fake DeFiLlama App Drained a Real Wallet
DeFiLlama tracks capital locked across decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols, and traders treat its dashboards as a reference point. That trust made the brand worth copying.
The clone was crude. It simply asked users to enter their seed phrase-the 12 or 24 words that control a wallet-and then emptied whatever it found.
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