Recently the Dragginz team has been on a campaign to “Drain the Swamp” in the ICP ecosystem. I’m all for cleaning things up around here, but I can’t help but notice some red flags. As a good rule of thumb, whenever fingers start being pointed at others, it’s always worth taking a deeper look at the person pointing the finger.
1.) Dragginz is still a game in the development process and has not released an actual product yet, and price performance has struggled for the last 12 months. Before I go any further, this alone should be enough of a reason to be concerned about the real stability of the Dragginz project given their attention is not 100% on their project. The YRAL team hasfollowed a similar pattern. Raise money from the community. Never really deliver on the product. Start criticizing anyone and everyone except themselves. This pattern has played out with other projects as well.
2.) A couple months ago, there was a post in the forums about the Dragginz team also beingbehind Bob and Alice. From my understanding the team denied this, but I’ve had four community members close to the centre of this situation also suggest the Dragginz team is behind Bob and Alice. I expect the team to continue denying this, even if they are running all 3 projects.
3.) The timing on the Dragginz “Drain the Swamp” initiative happens to coincide with Bob and Alice becoming inactive on social media. This realisation led many people in the Bob &Alice community to wonder what was happening with the project. But this could just be coincidence.
4.) If the Dragginz team is behind Bob and Alice as well, that would be relevant to their “Drain the Swamp” campaign. Given that one team essentially runs 3 projects. Between Dragginz, Bob, and Alice, those projects have taken in a lot of ICP from the community. Dragginz does not have much to show for it, and there are a lot of questions about the sustainability of Alice and Bob’s business model.
5.) The Dragginz account has recently started targeting Bob Bodily and Odin.Fun.Apparently because of an issue with the Motoko Ghost project, that up until this week, theDragginz team has never shown much interest in.
If the Dragginz team is running the BOB project on ICP, it would make sense why they were unhappy that Bob Bodily and Odin.Fun were getting so much bloody attention. By getting behind the Motoko project now, this could give the Dragginz Team a more legitimate way to target some of their main competition, Bob Bodily and Odin.Fun. Using pre-existing frustrations from within the community about Entrepot, Bioniq, and Stoic as fuel for the broader campaign. Given there are valid criticisms of Entrepot and Bioniq.
I am posting this because I am more confident than not, that Dragginz is running all three projects. Out of respect for the four community members, I will leave their name out of the conversation. It’s possible the Dragginz team is not behind Bob and Alice, but I have seen and heard enough to feel the need to put this information out, and let people analyseeverything for themselves.
Watching a team turn their focus to pointing the finger at others, while simultaneously having three incomplete projects that have all raised a lot of money from the community, is something people should take note of.
I realise why the Dragginz team would want to keep this concealed from the broader community. If the community knows the same team is behind all 3 projects, they can assess for themselves whether the team is making good use of their time and resources, given all 3 projects are incomplete.
I am not posting this to create FUD. Feel free to write off this entire post as rubbish. I just think the broader community should know who is running some of the main projects in the ecosystem. I fully expect the Dragginz team to continue denying they have anything to do with Bob and Alice. But people can read through this post, do their own due diligence, and make up their mind for themselves.