Hello everyone, I am Timmy, the founder of
@NX_Finance.
Recently, our project experienced an 80% drop in price on the first day of trading, causing financial losses for many users who participated in our IDO. As a result, there have been various criticisms and "accusations" against the team and me personally on Twitter and within our community. I want to use this article to provide all the information that you are concerned about, and to sincerely apologize to all our partners.
1. Within the first minute after the IDO ended and TGE began, our token faced a 37% price drop due to dumping. We acknowledge that our team was not fully prepared for this situation, and we sincerely apologize for this. We are actively working on solutions and communicating with more experienced teams to find a resolution that compensates all users who participated in the IDO.
2. NX Finance strictly adheres to our tokenomics and commitments to the community. The team has not sold any tokens on the secondary market, and there is no possibility of any Soft Rug or Hard Rug.
3. All on-chain token activities comply with the project whitepaper and tokenomics that we made public before the IDO and explained in detail on Twitter and within our community. There have been no secret mintings or dumps.
4. Due to inadequate communication between me, the team, and the community, many baseless accusations and FUD have surfaced on various community platforms and Twitter. The team and I will communicate with relevant communities and hold AMAs to address specific questions and suggestions.
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Reasons for the Severe Price Drop
Our IDO whitelist round sold out within just 2 minutes, but the public round was less than ideal, raising only 40% of the target amount. This created some unease among the community and IDO participants. Coupled with two IDO whales using bots to dump 500 SOL worth of tokens within the first two seconds of the TGE without considering slippage, the market price immediately dropped by 40%. Many community members pointed fingers at the team for dumping, but this was not the case. Here is some information about those addresses:
Whale Address 1:
DomwD6imYt185zgQeJrLg7ozz2g52mxuW44YRqx6Y2Vu
During the IDO, Whale 1 transferred a total of 300 SOL to the NX IDO address (AXAdudiXbUoUUoLbkoT8CZeWQnjALZrVTUEMtrDjL9kA) through two transactions and received an allocation of 209,790 NX tokens.
[Transaction 1]
(
solscan.io/tx/29urPagCnNrd8D…)
[Transaction 2]
(
solscan.io/tx/3VtPFfFFRasBhR…)
He then sold all of them for 222 SOL after the market opened.
[Sale Transaction](
solscan.io/tx/5L11n8aQAaLvk9…)
According to the on-chain records, this address continued trading in the TMT/SOL trading pair after dumping NX tokens, indicating that it does not belong to any team members. (More importantly, it did not make any profit participating in the IDO and dumping at the very first second. )
Whale Address 2:
HL1XAbvKgcP5jk62viqHkqFWQWd6ywKs2nQa3oiaKD5u
Whale 2 transferred a total of 200 SOL to the IDO address (AXAdudiXbUoUUoLbkoT8CZeWQnjALZrVTUEMtrDjL9kA) through two transactions and received an allocation of 139,860 NX tokens.
[Transaction 1]
(
solscan.io/tx/3pMAzMuehovez6…)
[Transaction 2]
(
solscan.io/tx/3C6CbcLMzq51xZ…)
He then sold all of them for 183 SOL after the market opened.
[Sale Transaction](
solscan.io/tx/jdDVUuVHNWnLdQ…)
Similarly, this address has a very active DeFi transaction history, with funds sourced from Kamino Reserve, showing it is not operated by our team.
Due to the aggressive dumping by these two whales, the price of NX tokens plummeted by 40% within the first two seconds after opening, leading to a collapse in community confidence and triggering further panic selling.
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Allegations of Team Dumping
There have been further allegations regarding an address (8RKyq5Dutk9fxPnPgQpmDSAi4KYs3XUrGjkRdBw5M9yr) that sold 130 SOL immediately after the TGE without participating in the IDO and transferred the proceeds to Binance, suggesting it might be a team member.
The answer is no. This address received its token allocation from 7vbbY9am3naLwVeT88XUuZ7yuTcTu4FrwWQp1DpF6a2F, which falls under the 1% “BD and Marketing” budget disclosed in our whitepaper. Some partner promotional expenses were paid in tokens; therefore, part of the BD & Marketing tokens was unlocked during the TGE for partners to claim and manage independently. The team had no control over these tokens post-claim nor prior knowledge of their decisions. We believe the partners did not intend to dump tokens to impact prices negatively at this early stage.
We are a community-driven project that has been running for over six months without financial backing, and many of our promotions were paid through tokens/KOL rounds. Our whitepaper, released a week before the IDO, clearly stated that 1% of tokens would be released for BD & Marketing during TGE, and we explained our tokenomics in detail on Twitter and our IDO Twitter Spaces. The community supported our tokenomics highly.
[Twitter Announcement](
nitter.app/NX_Finance/status/1825…)
This shows that many of the accusations circulating in the community and on social media are inaccurate. The team has not secretly dumped any tokens. Currently, more than half of the BD & Marketing allocation remains unsold. We are also in discussions with our partners to find a more beneficial unlocking solution for the project and community.
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Market Making Decisions
Q: Why didn’t the project team market making?
During IDO preparation, despite the market sentiment being less than favorable, our project’s strong growth momentum and support from other projects, combined with active and positive community feedback, made us overly optimistic about our market conditions. Even though we considered some “worst-case scenarios,” we did not anticipate such an extreme situation where whales would crash the price in the first minute, causing panic selling. This indeed caught us off guard, leading to inadequate market making plans, further exacerbating the panic sell-off. We have since contacted several market makers and have started discussions on a market-making plan. A more detailed market-making plan will be announced, and we will use our own funds for market-making.
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Response to Minting Allegations
Some users have accused us of minting more tokens in an attempt to execute a rug pull. However, that is not true. Please refer to the on-chain data:
We minted tokens three times in total. The first mint was for testing purposes, and it was under a different contract than the current NX token, with no issue of additional minting. Our official NX token contract address, already announced on our official Twitter, is BAsnXPVYuvZDfEFR7tmu9sG9gPyHy58Jpjs2AuUw1FLx, with a total supply of 90.91M (we burned 9.08M unsold tokens as planned for the IDO) and have already waived mint authority.
[Token Address](
solscan.io/token/BAsnXPVYuvZ…)
First mint of 16,575,600 tokens: [Transaction Hash](
solscan.io/tx/34qu1BsGqguuis…)
Second mint of 83,424,400 tokens: [Transaction Hash](
solscan.io/tx/EcDv9QN3FNHhyZ…)
9,086,427 unsold tokens burned: [Transaction Hash](
solscan.io/tx/nrpcUZNeJYspxg…)
Before the first official mint, the team conducted a mint test. The test tokens are under a different address from the official tokens and do not have any utility.
[Test Mint Transaction](
solscan.io/tx/22CDGvDU21qRrn…)
Therefore, we have not minted any additional tokens. We only conducted minting tests and burn tests. There is only one official token address. We will continue to follow the tokenomics outlined in the whitepaper for vesting to ensure all actions align with what was disclosed to the community before the IDO.
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Future Plans for NX's Fund Allocation and Product Development
The funds raised by NX will be used for the team's expenses over the next year, marketing costs, and market-making. The team is reviewing how best to utilize the funds, including launching better products and compensating IDO users. We deeply understand that trust is the foundation of any project. Therefore, you can track our fund wallets for transparency, and we are willing to take any measures to increase transparency and strengthen trust among our community and users:
[Wallet Tracker](
solscan.io/account/21om2wCyR…).
Regarding the project's recent plans, we will focus on Solana restaking and the perp dex LP narratives. I believe there is a demand in the market for leverageing LRT projects, especially with projects like Solayer and Fragmetric. For the perp Dex LP sector, GMSOL is a product I’ve been anticipating for a long time. Although it hasn't launched yet, I believe it will be a critical point to boost Solana trading activity. More importantly, in recent months, our team has been in contact with these project teams and received positive feedback on collaboration. We hope to reach a consensus soon.
In the medium to long term, the team has been discussing NX V2’s innovations, with two directions mentioned: providing fixed interest rates and trading bot services. However, these require extensive research and discussion to implement. We will continue to update the community on our product development plans and involve the community in the research and design of our products, creating a more product-market fit that aligns with community, user, and market needs.
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My Reflections on the IDO
Entrepreneurship is about constant improvement, and I admit I made significant mistakes in the following areas:
1) Misjudgment of the Project’s Valuation:
Due to our TVL steadily increasing and all of it being organic without any private TVL purchases, we successfully reached 20M TVL. This led me to make an overly optimistic judgment of the market’s valuation of our project, deciding to raise funds at an 18M FDV. The reality, however, is that the market did not buy in.
2) Need for Improved Tokenomics and Market-Making:
I underestimated the market’s extreme conditions and never expected a drastic drop within the first minute of launch. The 15% IDO + 100% unlock was also a critical error. We have now contacted market makers and started discussing market-making plans.
3) Lack of Transparency:
Different communities had many questions and misunderstandings about us, but we did not immediately provide unified responses or transaction proofs, leading to misunderstanding and unease within the community. As the founder, I take responsibility for this and sincerely apologize.
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About My Previous Project Match Finance
Regarding the accusations surrounding my previous project, Match Finance: Match Finance was my first project. The previous project, Furion, didn’t issue a token or generate any profits, and the team decided to pivot to a new project with more industry value at that time—what you now know as Match Finance. It was a subDAO of Lybra Finance, positioned similarly to the relationship between Convex and Curve.
Before the TGE, Lybra Finance required us to purchase LBR tokens. As a subDAO, we supported this. At the time, Match Finance's IDO valuation was 5M, and on the first day of launch, the token's valuation exceeded 20M, with promising momentum. However, after the TGE, Lybra’s token dropped by 80% within two weeks. We immediately contacted their team and were told to expect big moves in two months and to prepare accordingly. Unfortunately, they never responded to us again as their ecosystem subDAO project team.
Lybra’s failure had a direct impact on us. Even though we launched a new product features during the TGE, it was built around Lybra, the market had no interest in the new product beacause of the LBR price dropping. We later tried to pivot to become a subDAO of Prisma Finance. However, after extensive research and development, we realized we lacked the resources to purchase enough tokens to gain sufficient voting power, so we ultimately did not launch this product.
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About Myself:
Finally, I want you guys to understand me a bit more. I see myself as a product-focused founder, deeply inspired by the entrepreneurial culture of Silicon Valley. Over the past year, I have repeatedly emphasized to friends and the team that product-market fit is the core of any project; the product must meet user needs. While NX may not be highly innovative, I believe it has solved some user needs in Solana’s DeFi ecosystem, achieving organic growth of $20M TVL. This is why I am so committed to my project. However, it is evident that I have made mistakes beyond product development, particularly in areas like market-making and token issuance. There are many details I need to learn and improve upon.
Here, I once again apologize to our users and IDO participants. The recent price drop is due to my lack of attention to detail. I will not shy away from this failure but instead treat it as one of the most important lessons of my life. I will provide compensation to users and participants. At the same time, I remain absolutely confident in NX's future. I will lead my team to continue improving the product and prove with our actions that NX is still the best choice for maximizing returns on Solana.
Lastly, I want to thank all users who continue to use NX Finance despite this turmoil. NX still has over 14M in funds remaining in the protocol. Therefore, NX Finance continues to operate normally, providing 22.13% APR for the USDT pool and up to 46.7% APY leveraged returns for JLP assets.
Regarding the compensation plan, we will buy back 18% of the tokens from IDO participants at the IDO price and burn them. The details will be announced through the official NX account
@NX_Finance. In addition, we are preparing a range of measures to compensate both IDO participants and existing supporters. We are also working on a new tokenomics model to ensure better benefits for our users. Currently, NX has a TVL of about 14M, with a monthly revenue of approximately 25K in the past month. This indicates that the project has the potential for sustainable profitability.
I understand that this solution may not cover everyone’s losses entirely. Over the past few days, I have sought advice from various experienced industry leaders on how to compensate users as much as possible while ensuring the team retains sufficient operating funds to continue providing services to the community and users. I recognize that some misunderstandings have arisen due to my lack of clear communication. However, I want to clarify that I am someone who is willing to take responsibility for my mistakes. This is the first time I have faced such a challenging situation, so I have been extremely cautious with every decision, taking more time than usual to think through and weigh each detail carefully. We will implement the compensation plan as soon as possible. I kindly ask for your understanding and patience as the team finalizes these details.