After frustating for a quite long time, we are finally get the announcement from the developer :
The Invennium company is aware of a variety of exploits around fuel that has led to the ability to earn an outsized amount of fuel, race an unintendedly large amount of times, and earn an outsized amount of tokens for this behavior.
The company has received numerous complaints that certain accounts have engaged in behavior that's against the terms of service of Moon Karts by explicitly and intentionally maximizing the impact of these exploits.
The company is actively deploying fixes to the exploits as quickly as possible to ensure no further abuse. There are claims that we have not prioritized these fixes. This is false. It turns out there were multiple bugs that needed fixing and the problems were in multiple locations. It wasn't a lack of effort, but the complexity of the problem that we've been chasing down.
We have conducted an initial investigation and believe these claims that certain accounts have intentionally breached the terms of service have merit. Some or all of the accounts/people in question seem to acknowledge as much themselves by having returned 10s of millions of fuel and also having returned 2.1M colony tokens.
Despite the partial good will measure we believe the system is still at risk of further and additional exploit. So, as an initial step we have implemented measures to temporarily freeze assets. The accounts below can continue to play, but they will not be able to claim additional fuel, nor will they be able to transfer tokens or NFTs until the freeze is ended. By playing they can continue to earn, but they will not be able to transfer earnings to other accounts.
As a next step we'll put out a proposal to the community asking if the DAO will continue to support freezing these accounts or if the freeze should be immediately ended. If the freeze/unfreeze DAO proposal results in a freeze we'll continue to freeze the assets and determine if the DAO/community wants other measures implemented as well via separate proposals and votes. If the freeze is not continued we'll release these accounts from any restrictions.
As such, we're limiting our company involvement to a ~1-2 week temporary freeze until such time as the DAO can vote. At that time the DAO will be responsible for maintaining or releasing the freeze or any additional actions and we'll act in service of the DAO to do as the stakeholders vote.
The following accounts are currently frozen and the initial freeze deployment is already concluded.
'drzoom',
'slinkcpm',
'bubabean',
'lordkenyon',
'siranthonyswift',
'pubclub93',
'wisteria2024',
'patterson2006',
'darkknight6',
'nightwing7',
'darkvengeance7',
'spaceghost25',
'korver',
'harleysjoker',
'gunsroses85',
'korver.curation',
'ahmrahmdam',
'fozzle19',
'goodshepherd',
'ablckbrd',
'efrenmangubat',
'rakerumon',
'lykaislove',
'wordchallenge',
'khanjohnn',
'marcellius',
'zorak66',
We can answer some questions about this. Please place them in 🕒│office-hours as opposed to 💬│general and we'll have a more thorough discussion on this topic during office hours on Friday.
In the meantime, no assets have been moved, no play has been forbidden, no earnings have been stopped, no fuel amount has been changed by Invennium, and the only action we're currently taking is disabling actions for the above accounts until the conclusion of a DAO proposal continuing or ending said freeze.
We can see how the dev finally try to freeze the exploiter's group assets, but it's not a forever action from the dev, they will ask the DAO to vote wether they want to keep them freeze or might have another idea to applied.
I personally hope that everyone on this chain can help us prevent the exploiter to be back, by getting as much colony as you can and vote for the forever ban/freeze option for the exploiter. Your vote value is depend on how much staked colony you have, so we have to outnumber the expoliter on the vote !
Anyway, beside the higher vote value, more staked colony means more reward multiplier for the stakehouseen and moonkarts. Go get them now on https://hive-engine.com/trade/COLONY or get into the pool on https://tribaldex.com/swap?from=COLONY&to=SWAP.HIVE !
Don't let them outnumber us on staked colony !!