Some suspicious LooksRare on-chain actions

What did LooksRare promise:

  • They have both a Treasury (money for building the project ecosystem?) and a team wallet

What did actually happen:

  • LooksRare Team sent Ethereum from its Treasury to an unmarked address (we name it “partial-rug” in the article below).

  • This is also the address where the team wallet has been sending WETH to. WETH were split from the wallet to 10+ more addresses.

  • One of them used Tornado.cash to make the further actions untraceable.

  • Can this be called a partial rug pull?

Wallets:

Proof:

  1. 4,709 ETH were sent from Treasury to partial-rug https://etherscan.io/tx/0x2c22c6f826782935293421c076437b8f345cdcbfab5b2a4fb225ac9c4e6a62a8

  2. Team, unlocked sent 3,850 ETH to partial-rug https://etherscan.io/tx/0x0dee1d14528431ce44d7d70fe758f0b1fb3fa05025ebc1ca36f82592c5b0d6d5

  3. Those WETH were sent from partial-rug to 10+ addresses, very likely personal addresses https://etherscan.io/address/0xf6af7da33f86f138cc7dbe3a970de1905da5d1e8#internaltx

  4. One of the addresses sent all the ETH to a coin mixer https://etherscan.io/address/0xf5033a000f01f33faddfeea4948094792fb333bd