Many presale projects have realized in the past few months that launching a meme coin presale is not enough. For a crypto presale to succeed, it must include new, and perhaps even trending, features to justify extravagant fundraising targets that can sometimes reach tens of millions of dollars. We’ve seen Pepe Unchained introducing an Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution for meme coins, Crypto All-Stars fundraising with an "innovative" meme vault, and DexBoss with its decentralized exchange, among others.
The Solaxy crypto project is a layer-2 scaling solution developed for the Solana blockchain. It aims to enhance decentralized applications (dApps) transaction speed, reduce costs, and improve scalability. The $SOLX token serves as the core of the ecosystem, facilitating transaction fees, staking, and governance.
As the second meme coin (after Pepe Unchained) to launch a layer-2 solution and fundraise through a $SOLX presale, we explored whether Solaxy is worth your crypto investment. Let’s see what we found.
Building a layer-2 solution is no walk in the park, whether developing it from scratch or using an off-the-shelf solution. That’s why a whitepaper consisting of only eight pages, written in large fonts, fails to respect potential investors. This is a significant red flag for a project like the Solaxy $SOLX token, which has already raised nearly $10 million and aims to raise millions more. Will the layer-2 solution be developed from scratch or use a shelved solution? What is the current stage of implementation? What is the roadmap’s timetable? These burning questions—and many more—remain unanswered in the whitepaper.
The Solaxy team is hidden. Not only do they conceal their identities, but they also fail to undergo a KYC process with a reliable third-party company. As a result, we have no idea who they are. To make it even harder to find details about them, they registered the domain solaxy.io with Namecheap, a domain registration service known for its strong privacy protections, often favored by scammers and fraudsters.
We don’t know if the Solaxy team members are legitimate, and possess the skills required to pull this project off, what other projects they have launched before, or many other critical details. By identifying similarities between Solaxy and other meme coin projects, we might make an educated guess that the team behind this project could be linked to others, but it would remain speculation. Bottom line: a project raising such significant funds while maintaining full anonymity from the team, in our opinion is a second red flag.
Three- or four-digit staking rewards, as promised by the Solaxy $SOLX token, are unsustainable. Period. Such claims on the Solaxy crypto website are an immediate turnoff for us. This is one of the oldest tricks in the book to lure investors into fraudulent schemes.
Adding to this is the aggressive marketing by the well-oiled Clickout Media machine, churning out countless articles in leading digital news outlets, blogs, and YouTube videos. The result is a package designed to lure investors through hype and aggressive promotion rather than genuine technological advancements or the capabilities of the developers and founders. This marks a third red flag for us.
Solaxy audited their token with Coinsult. Newcomers might find this sound impressive, but this is meaningless in reality. The audit only covers basic $SOLX token functionality and has no connection to the complex layer-2 Solana blockchain solution that Solaxy claims to be building. Moreover, projects like Solaxy, if they intend to scam, are unlikely to rely on a honeypot scam in the token. Instead, projects that raise millions of dollars with aggressive marketing and anonymous teams often operate behind the curtains, hiding beneath the covers of zero transparency where investors cannot see.
Solaxy price prediction is another tactic in the project’s sponsored articles to lure investors into the $SOLX token presale. At this early stage, making any reliable price prediction is impossible. Don’t be misled by paid influencers or others attempting to trick you into the presale to earn commissions from your cryptocurrency investment.
The Solaxy crypto presale might successfully launch the $SOLX token. But it's important to remember that raising millions of dollars during the $SOLX presale is not a significant achievement. The real question is whether the funds will be used to develop the Solaxy crypto layer-2 solution or end up in the devs’ pockets, implying a potential scam operation. While we can’t definitively prove anything due to the lack of transparency and the presale early stage, the shallow content, aggressive marketing, and complete lack of transparency strongly suggest potential foul play or conflicts of interest.
Our advice is to stay away from the Solaxy presale. However, if you still decide to take the risk and participate in the $SOLX presale, consider the following: First, don’t risk more money than you can afford to lose. Second, avoid staking your tokens. Third, pray to the crypto gods that you can claim your tokens before the devs list the $SOLX token on a crypto exchange. Best of luck!