Conor McGregor calls out Khabib over 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 standard hat worn in Nurmagomedov’s native nation of Dagestan. 

“There may be simply no means good man Khabib used his late father’s title, 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, stating that McGregor tried to launch his personal superstar memecoin in April referred to as REAL. ZachXBT stated:

“There may be simply no means good man McGregor used his repute, in addition to Irish tradition, to rip-off his followers and hearth promote a bunch of digital tokens on-line after which delete the entire posts after they had been offered, leaving his followers robbed of their cash?” 

McGregor’s REAL token was provided 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 objective. 

The funds that had been raised had been refunded to contributors following the failed launch, in response to McGregor. The failure of the token was on account of a number of elements, together with a broad downturn within the crypto market on the time and a memecoin bear market.