Lily Liu's viral 'don't waste time with crypto' born from dev's battle with $16M fake token scam on Solana

$16M fake $CLAWD token pumped through a hijacked rebrand window, followed weeks later by a coordinated GitHub phishing campaign targeting the same dev community with fake airdrops — these aren't one-off scams, they're multi-stage operations running full playbooks now. Liu retweeting the resulting "don't waste time with crypto" sentiment from a scam that ran on her own L1 is peak Solana 2026. Hard to attract builders when your chain's scam infra is more sophisticated than half the legit protocols.

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