Conor McGregor Calls Out Khabib for NFTs, Will get Shut Down by ZachXBT

UFC star Conor McGregor criticized former rival Khabib Nurmagomedov for his non-fungible token (NFT) drop on Telegram, which featured digital “papakhas” — a conventional hat worn in Nurmagomedov’s native nation of Dagestan. 

“There’s simply no manner good man Khabib used his late father’s identify, in addition to Dagestan’s tradition, to rip-off his followers and hearth promote a bunch of digital NFTs on-line,” McGregor wrote in a now-deleted X submit. 

Onchain sleuth ZachXBT responded to McGregor, declaring that McGregor tried to launch his personal movie star memecoin in April referred to as REAL. ZachXBT stated:

“There’s simply no manner good man McGregor used his status, in addition to Irish tradition, to rip-off his followers and hearth promote a bunch of digital tokens on-line after which delete all the posts after they have been offered, leaving his followers robbed of their cash?” 

McGregor’s REAL token was supplied to potential patrons in a sealed-bid public sale to stop snipers and automatic buying and selling bots from manipulating costs at launch. It featured staking rewards for holders, nevertheless it solely managed to boost 39% of its goal launch aim. 

The funds that have been raised have been refunded to individuals following the failed launch, in accordance with McGregor. The failure of the token was because of a number of components, together with a broad downturn within the crypto market on the time and a memecoin bear market.