HumidiFi’s WET Token Sale Relaunch: Bouncing Back from Bot Attack Chaos
HumidiFi fires up the token sale engine again—this time with shields up.
### The Aftermath of a Digital Stampede
The platform's initial launch didn't just hit a snag; it got bulldozed by automated scripts. A swarm of bots flooded the sale, snapping up allocations in milliseconds and leaving human participants with nothing but error messages and a bad taste. It was a classic case of code beating capital, a reminder that in crypto's wild west, the fastest gun—or algorithm—wins.
### Relaunch Strategy: Fortifying the Gates
So, what's different now? The team went back to the smart contract drawing board. The relaunch introduces a hardened, multi-layered defense system. Think enhanced wallet screening, transaction rate limiting, and a sybil-resistance mechanism that makes it exponentially harder for a single entity to dominate. They're not just opening the doors; they're posting digital guards at every entrance.
### Why the WET Token Still Has a Pulse
Despite the fiasco, the underlying thesis for WET holds water. The token is designed to govern HumidiFi's liquidity pools and fee-sharing model—a tangible utility in the often-abstract world of DeFi. The bot attack, ironically, proved there was real, if robotic, demand. The challenge now is converting that chaotic interest into legitimate, distributed participation.
### A Cynical Nod to Finance As Usual
Let's be real—if this were traditional finance, the bot operators would probably be hailed as 'efficient market participants' and given a seat on the exchange board. In crypto, we just call it a war and build better walls.
The relaunch is a high-stakes test. It's about more than selling tokens; it's about restoring trust in a process that's supposed to be democratized. If the new safeguards hold, HumidiFi turns a PR disaster into a resilience case study. If not? Well, there's always the lesson learned—another line item for the 'educational expenses' that crypto founders pay in reputation instead of cash.
Bots took over first sale
The initial public sale happened last week, but ran into serious problems when a bot farm bought almost all tokens in seconds and left regular buyers out. At the time, HumidiFi confirmed on X that “For the public sale, a bot farm sniped the entire supply instantly and weterans were not able to participate.”
Onchain analytics company Bubblemaps later reported that most of the purchases came from one main person controlling over 1,100 wallets. The wallets were funded with the same amount and bought tokens at the same time, which means that someone planned the attack carefully to grab almost all tokens.
The first sale raised $1.39 million in USDC, which gave the project a total value of $69 million. The token price briefly went up to $0.25 before dropping to $0.15 after the bot attack was revealed.
The relaunch of WET
Following the bot attack, HumidiFi decided to cancel the first presale and create a new sale. They announced to give a pro-rata airdrop of the new tokens to previous buyers who were real users, while the bots get nothing.
The new public sale gives a fresh start for $WET buyers. The community hopes this time the sale will run smoothly, and tokens can be claimed fairly on December 9.
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