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MLB Team Washington Nationals Partners With Terra Blockchain Community, Ballpark Plans to Accept UST

On February 9, the American professional baseball team based in Washington, D.C., the Washington Nationals, announced the team has partnered with Terra, the open-source blockchain platform and decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). The Washington Nationals detail that the team is a “leading innovator” and is “consistently introducing new technologies to enhance the fan experience.” Washington Nationals Ink Long-Term Deal With Terra Major League Baseball (MLB) team the Washington Nationals has partnered with the blockchain platform and DAO Terra, according to an announcement published by the team on Wednesday. The deal with Terra follows a slew of sports-related deals with crypto firms, but the MLB team will be the first to partner with an open-source blockchain project. In addition to the partnership, the algorithmic stablecoin UST that’s issued on the Terra blockchain will be “accepted as a payment method at Nationals Park as early as next season.” “The Nationals continue t...
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YouTuber accused of engineering multi-million pump n dump via Uniswap

The YouTuber denied accusations he has rug-pulled on his followers while asserting that Million token is a “social project” that “should not be considered an investment.”

An ex-Google tech lead and YouTuber with more than 1.1 million subscribers has been accused of engineering a multi-million dollar “pump and dump” scheme.

Patrick Shyu, known pseudonymously as TechLead on YouTube, launched the Million token (MM) via Initial Dex Offering (IDO) on leading decentralized exchange Uniswap on July 1.

The project’s website describes Million as a pre-mined cryptocurrency with a fixed supply of one million tokens that are backed by one USDC each per token. The website emphasizes that despite only being backed by $1 million worth of stablecoins, MM has “no maximum value.”

After being priced at $1.00 on launch, MM saw a mammoth 3,500% increase within just three days to hit $36.87 on July 4. The price has since crashed, declining by 58% to sit around $15.26 at the time of writing.

The immediate crash that followed Million’s price high has led to accusations the project is a pump and dump on Twitter, with user “DCF GOD” highlighting the large sums of liquidity that had been pulled from Uniswap by the same address that minted MM tokens.

“By removing liquidity and not selling, he's effectively selling without 'selling'. This way he doesn't have to tell the community that he sold while they all bought, he just has to hold his initial promise of keeping 1m of usdc liquidity,” they argued.

Shyu responded to the thread, labeling it “absolute FUD,” arguing: “this is literally how liquidity works in Uniswap V3 [...] liquidity ranges are created, you literally cannot do it any other way.”

Popular commentator “ChainlinkGod.eth 2.0” commented that TechLead had completely missed DCF’s point, stating: “You've created a ‘get rich quick’ scheme so you can dump on your followers, you've added liquidity when the price is low and removed it when the price was high and profited the difference in $USDC.”

Related: CoinMarketCap launches Ethereum token swaps powered by Uniswap

Shyu published a YouTube video on July 6 addressing the accusations, denying that he “rug-pulled” investors by removing liquidity. However, the YouTuber also emphasized that MM “should not be considered an investment,” describing the project as a “social experiment:”

“Million tokens should not be considered an investment by any means. This is a social experiment and really pure speculation, it's kind of a game for us to see what happens with this, kind of like Dogecoin.”
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