Defli shenanigans.

Previously published on https://www.publish0x.com/?a=46dBr8Dod7


Good morning/evening.
 
If you were not aware I converted one of my Helium miners to a new progect called Defli. The project sounded good to me, we were collecting data about planes using an SDR, a raspberry pie and an antenna, then also being able to monitor drones, charge drones with charging stations amongst other things. (I thought with all the drone deliveries this could be good but wanted to see how Defli panned out before investing any more into it).
 
 
When I first joined there were under 100 wallets so it was really new but I thought as we only needed an SDR dongle it was worth a go. It did go up to 400 holders but is back down now to just 283.
 
 
 
As things moved on, and new ventures kept popping up within Defli I thought it was about time I researched this properly. I started with the team, found absolutely zero so for me this was red flag number 1.
Then I moved on to the equipment that people were ordering and not receiving. (At first thinking it was like with Helium and the delays getting miners out) but no one I spoke to had received any equipment. I asked if we could see some pictures from people showing their hosted equipment. Nothing. Red flag number 2. (eventually most were refunded for equipment not received)
Social's is always a good place to look at new projects so on to Twitter/X, just a few random posts no one can comment on, Telegram......Empty, I sent an Email and still no reply. Red flag number 3.
The community asked for an AMA to calm things down, this was postponed and eventually never happened. Red flag number 4.
A listing on a DEX/CEX was going to happen in September, still nothing, then they set up an exchange wallet/swap page so you could swap your tokens for BTC. (The wallet was impossible to find through any searches and you could only get on using a link they sent you, there was no way I would connect my Metamask to that so I can't tell you much, only that it was taken down after a week.) Red flag number 5. They also said that the Defli token was going to be listed on Kucoin on December 21st. I have not seen it.
 
 
 
At this time there was just one Dev/project owner, nobody knows who or what his position is in discord so I very politely mentioned that for us in crypto these sort of things need to be addressed, especially as he was asking us to promote the project. His response was to ban me from Discord! 
 
The next issue was the code, it needed to be changed to use a different data collector, but as people had so much trouble getting the first one working, they were reluctant to switch and were getting no help, in fact Oreo (the owner/dev? Nobody knows) was ridiculing people for having only basic coding knowledge. It was not until the deadline to change had passed and only 75 wallets had done it that 2 of the community stepped in and made a simple code for people to copy and paste, then the number of people running it went back up to around 300....
 
We were also told at this point that we were allowed to dual mine Wingbits (another project that Ii will do a post about) so we added another line of code and that was done, we are now dual mining.
 
I am at this point still banned from the only source of information, but I am using my husband's discord to try and keep up and a lot of the community are getting concerned, asking about the 'listing' and so we were allowed to set up or add to liquidity pools to buy and sell our tokens. Defli would contribute small capital to these pools as the P2P had stopped. As soon as someone took profits though they were again told in discord to stop draining the liquidity! At one point that person's wallet was posted in the group and he was asked to stop.
 
Then loads more people were banned from discord and the one's that were still in were updating everyone else in a Facebook group. At this point one of the really early investors who had been a great help to everyone with his tutorials was starting to get concerned, he had been helping as a mod in the discord and his video's were on the discord group as a go to for set up's. He ended up quitting as a mod but stayed in the group......Then he was also banned. Then his rewards were stopped as well as anyone he sent tokens to, they also had rewards stopped. These are people using their own equipment and have paid for a license!
 
 
At this point it is getting ridiclous, people were told they would earn less rewards if they cash out and drain the LP's, we were told that if we dual mine Wingbits we would get no rewards. Defli tried to show people the 'team' to calm things down, but most of us that have researched this team have found nothing......Bio's and links that are dead and a picture of an actor!
 
The next thing to pacify the community would be 2 sets of air dropped rewards, the first ones would be the new Drodec token and that will be locked for 180 days. (we received 500 of these). Then we had a choice of 5 or 6 tokens that we would receive monthly at a value of $16 per month but only if you met the criteria of not mining Wingbits and had an uptime of 88%. We did receive the first of these as USDC, some did not.
 
Then came some more 'new team member's' to Discord and the immediate ban of many more of the community from Discord, some of these people had not even commented. I really don't know what to make of all this but if anyone wants to join a project and were to see all the going's on it would surely put them off. 
 
I honestly have no idea what is going on, if we were told the token was being listed on Lbank, then Kucoin, then what is this about!
 
 
 
This is now the latest update.
 
Now I am not trying to spread FUD, I write about what I am doing in crypto, the good, bad and ugly. I think I need a new category now which would be confused. If someone could please share their thoughts on this it would be most appreciated as I have no idea anymore about this project. 
 
As always thank you for reading and please help me out here with your opinions on this.