Many artists have invested in Metaverse business opportunities to issue their own NFTs. Chinese music singer Jay Chou is one of them. His trendy brand PHANTACi and the platform Ezek jointly launched the NFT (non-fungible token) “Phanta Bear” (Fantasy Bear) ), sold out in 40 minutes and in just 7 days, ranked first in the world’s largest NFT trading platform OpenSea overall list, but today (1) Jay Chou found that the NFT in his NFT account had been stolen, It was also revealed that even the high-priced NFT “Boring Ape” that Ma Ji’s eldest brother Huang Licheng gave him before was among them, and he said that it was definitely not an April Fool’s Day joke.
Jay Chou shared on the social networking site, “Just received a call, my friend was trying to help me with the new project of brother Huang Licheng, but the monkey (NFT) that my brother gave me was stolen by a phishing website, I thought April Fool’s Day was joking with me. , and it turned out that it was really gone… It seems that I should ask the big brother for a more dick.”
As soon as this article came out, many people thought it should be an April Fool’s Day joke. Even Huang Licheng left a message “April fool’s day? (April Fool’s Day joke?)”, but Jay Chou said in the post that this was not an April Fool’s Day joke.
It is understood that this “Boring Ape” NFT was given to Jay Chou by Huang Licheng in January this year. After being transferred from Jay Chou’s account this morning, it was quickly changed hands on the trading platform at high prices for 133 ETH (about 1240 ETH). 10,000 Taiwan dollars), 155 ETH (about 14 million Taiwan dollars) cross-border transactions. The information security website “Packshield” also revealed on Twitter that Jay Chou was not only stolen a “Boring Ape” NFT, but also a “Mutant Ape” NFT and two Doodles NFTs were also stolen one after another, and the loss may reach tens of millions New Taiwan Dollars.