This afternoon, the popular NFT project "Ali & His Friends" "launched" by the well-known animation IP Ali was suddenly taken off the shelves by OpenSea, and its Collections homepage has been displayed as "This page is lost" and cannot be accessed.

According to the official screenshot, the floor price of "Ali & His Friends" on OpenSea was 0.32 ETH before the delisting, but with the panic selling caused by the delisting, the current floor price of this series of NFTs on LooksRare has dropped to 0.195 ETH , although compared with the whitelist Mint cost of 0.1 ETH, it is still not broken, but considering the gas consumption and the hidden costs required to obtain the whitelist, the profit margin for investors is running out.

To be honest, although "Ali & His Friends" was taken off the shelves by OpenSea, it was a bit sudden, but considering the various "fairy operations" of the project these days, this result is not too surprising. Leaving aside relatively soft things such as the web UI (some say it’s too rough), Mint experience (some say it’s too bad), and the quality of the painting style (some say it’s hard to describe), let’s take a brief look at the features of “Ali & His Friends” Several outrageous operations:

• Noisy point 1: "Blind box" becomes "bright box"

The first noisy point appeared the day before yesterday. Community users found that the debug mode on the official website of "Ali & His Friends" was not closed during the pre-sale process, allowing users to access the metadata and picture information corresponding to the "blind box" through the background code logic , that is to say, you can directly see what the corresponding numbered NFT looks like through technical means, and the "blind box" directly becomes a "bright box".

In this regard, the solution given by "Ali & His Friends" is to rescramble all the leaked metadata, so let's go through a catastrophe.

• Noise 2: "Collect Wallet"

The second noise appeared on the official website of "Ali & His Friends", where "Connect Wallet" was spelled as "Collect Wallet" by the project. In this regard, some community members ridiculed that the person in charge of the front end of the project may be a programmer from Hunan, with no distinction between front and back nasal sounds...

• Noisy point 3: "Brothers hurry up and ship the goods"

When the aforementioned noise caused an uproar in the community, a person who seemed to be an administrator in the official Discord group of "Ali & His Friends" yelled in the channel, "Brothers, hurry up and ship", which once again caused an uproar in the community. sparked great controversy. Sometimes, forgetting to change the trumpet is such an embarrassment.

• Noise 4: "Everyone needs to panic"

After OpenSea was taken off the shelves, in order to appease the community, the MOD of the official Discord of "Ali & His Friends" released an announcement about checking and communicating with the OpenSea team. However, an ironic spelling appeared again in this announcement Mistake, I changed "Don't panic" into "Everyone needs to panic"...

In addition to these outrageous operations, investors are more worried about the professional ability of "Ali & His Friends". OpenDAO contributors and community users with the Twitter user name SOSMark (@MarkVaciou) are listed on Twitter. I have committed several sins of "Ali & His Friends", and I am deeply disappointed.

SOSMark highlighted two major points in the accusation. One is that the project party is too procrastinating, which leads to the delay of the original release time; the other is that the whitelist distribution mechanism is not transparent enough and too random. Fang (Element) provides 1000 whitelists, which is not fair enough for a large number of users who worked hard to create whitelists.

In addition to the current public controversies, "Ali & His Friends" actually has another hidden problem-the ownership of IP copyright. As early as August 2019, Sunac Culture Group issued an announcement announcing the strategic holding investment in Dream City Culture. Therefore, Ali's IP copyright also belongs to Sunac Culture. However, during the promotion of Ali NFT, the name of Sunac Culture was not seen from the beginning to the end. I wonder if the big companies know about these farces?

Ari was born in 2006, and it can be regarded as a classic and lovely image that accompanies a generation to grow up. It is a pity that an IP that has been in operation for more than ten years is simply and roughly squeezed out of value and profit by such an absurd team.

As of the publication, according to the official response of "Ali & His Friends", the team is actively communicating with the OpenSea support team, hoping to solve the problem.

However, whether OpenSea is willing to give the green light again, no one can give an answer at present. Just the day before yesterday, OpenSea officially announced that it will cooperate with the community to identify and delete a small number of NFTs, so as to better ensure the safety and value of NFTs on OpenSea. Before that, OpenSea has also removed another NFT. The controversial popular NFT project "Squiggles" has not yet resumed trading.

The NFT market is still in its early stages. There are many conscientious projects and high-quality teams here, but it is also full of countless chaos and scams. Especially in the cyclical bull market, stimulated by the huge wealth effect, a large number of shoddy works are being produced in batches. These projects are often covered with imaginary grand roadmaps, telling stories that they may not even believe. If these If it’s not enough, just recruit big V, celebrities, and well-known IP endorsements, and then create a false hot atmosphere through hunger marketing, just asking users to pay for it. This is obviously not the development model that an industry should have.

Perhaps, only periodic rotation can temporarily dispel such chaos.