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Yeah I agree.

> Rug pulls have emerged as the go-to scam of the DeFi ecosystem, accounting for 37% of all cryptocurrency scam revenue in 2021

So 37% of $7.7 billion is $2.849 billion.

> All in all, rug pulls took in more than $2.8 billion worth of cryptocurrency from victims in 2021.

> It’s important to remember that not all rug pulls start as DeFi projects. In fact, the biggest rug pull of the year centered on Thodex... In all, users lost over $2 billion worth of cryptocurrency, which represents nearly 90% of all value stolen in rug pulls. However, all the other rug pulls in 2021 began as DeFi projects.

The graph shows $2.6 billion was lost with Thodex. So that leaves $0.249 billion that was lost in projects that were rug pulls that began as DeFi projects.




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