Conor McGregor Calls Out Khabib for NFTs, Gets 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 may be simply no manner good man Khabib used his late father’s identify, in addition to Dagestan’s tradition, to rip-off his followers and fireplace promote a bunch of digital NFTs on-line,” McGregor wrote in a now-deleted X put up. 

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

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

McGregor’s REAL token was provided to potential consumers 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, but it surely solely managed to lift 39% of its goal launch purpose. 

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