How the artwork of an NFT collection was stolen, Exposing The Lil Baby Ape Heist With Roh
40Derivatives of existing NFT projects are commonplace, but blatantly stealing a whole project was unheard of, until now.
In this interview, we have a chat with NFT Enthusiast Roh, who will walk us through his experience in exposing the fake Lil Baby Ape Club, where 5,000 baby apes were stolen from their parents.
He would also share helpful tips and tricks with NFT collectors to do their due diligence (DYOR) before investing in a project.
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Roh
Twitter: https://twitter.com/0xRoh
Roh's Article on Medium
Website: https://medium.com/@0xRoh/how-5-000-baby-apes-were-stolen-from-their-parents-23bbdb0ad6a9
Adobe's Prepare as NFT function
Website: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/identity-provenance-nfts.html
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00:00:00 Start Screen
00:02:46 Disclaimer
00:04:05 Welcome
00:04:32 How Roh came across the project
00:05:18 How Roh found out that the project could have been stolen
00:06:00 Roh started to conduct his investigation into the project
00:06:40 Checking etherscan.io of the original project
00:06:57 Checking the contract token tracker
00:07:55 Checking the art of the contract
00:08:03 NFT URI Metadata
00:08:46 What is IPFS?
00:09:36 Checking the IPFS hash of the projects
00:10:12 Both projects were using the same artwork source on IPFS
00:10:59 Roh came to the conclusion that no new metadata was used
00:11:58 Reached out to the original creator to find out more evidence
00:12:28 Other evidence put forward by Kakashi to prove authenticity
00:13:04 Checking the description to see irregularities
00:14:05 Other evidence e.g., metadata, deployment date, production assets
00:14:47 Adobe's new "Prepare as NFT" feature
00:15:46 Other tips to DYOR
00:17:41 Other collection trending as Top on OpenSea
00:18:39 Roh stand by his research and encourage other people to do so too
00:20:10 The two collections on OpenSea
00:20:36 Why is Roh on the team member section on the LBAC website?
00:21:09 Roh is not part of the original team of LBAC
00:24:34 How did the community initially respond to the Medium Article?
00:24:53 Concerns of racist traits
00:25:52 Racist traits has been addressed
00:26:10 How did the project get hijacked?
00:26:38 Kakashi thinks that the project was stolen at test network
00:26:49 Roh thinks it was sniped at etherscan.io
00:27:05 Tips for NFT Creators to prevent project from being stolen
00:27:57 Sniping at etherscan.io
00:29:36 Be careful when deploying your art
00:33:48 OpenSea is looking into this
00:35:12 Advice for NFT Creators
00:38:30 What is verifying a contract?
00:39:38 Live Q&A
00:42:46 Wrap Up
00:43:48 End Screen
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