Yuga Labs freezes Dookey Dash leaderboard.

The company behind the NFT collection Bored Ape Yacht Club, Yuga Labs, froze the leaderboard of the recently launched GameFi-game Dookey Dash.

Dookey Dashers, the sewer has been closed and the leaderboard is now locked! We are validating the scores and will share the final leaderboard once we complete our review. pic.twitter.com/NynZE6g7gO

— Bored Ape Yacht Club (@BoredApeYC) February 8, 2023

In Dookey Dash, a player rockets through a sewer tunnel, dodging obstacles and collecting bonuses.

Announcing the game in January, Yuga Labs promised to reward the most active participants with ‘mysterious sources of energy’, the nature of which they did not disclose. Participants were to accumulate points over three weeks until February 8.

The entry to Dookey Dash is the NFT Sewer Pass. The tokens were distributed among owners of assets from the Bored Ape Yacht Club and Mutant Ape Yacht Club collections.

Access can also be obtained by purchasing the NFT on the secondary market. According to Crypto Slam, at the time of writing the Sewer Pass trading volume stood at about $73.4 million.

Ранее появились сообщения, что пользователи нанимают опытных игроков, чтобы повысить свои результаты.

Команда, назвавшая себя ClearHat, обнаружила, что в Dookey Dash «широко используются боты». В опубликованном 8 февраля треде исследователи раскрыли оставленные Yuga Labs уязвимости и пути их использования, которые сервер игры не может обнаружить.

It appears that #DookeyDash was widely botted and unfortunately @BoredApeYC/@yugalabs is to blame. (1/43)

— ClearHat (@xClearHat) February 8, 2023

В ClearHat отметили, что за несколько часов создали бота, который показал «неплохие результаты».

Разработчики Yuga Labs заявили, что обнаружили случаи читерства и удалили некоторые аккаунты из таблицы лидеров.

We want Dookey Dash to be as fair as possible. As we’ve mentioned previously, we will not allow cheating. We’ve already noticed some #DookeyDash Sewer Passes associated with cheating. Those scores have now been removed from the leaderboard.

— Bored Ape Yacht Club (@BoredApeYC) February 8, 2023

They added that they would continue the review, and users who employed unscrupulous methods will no longer have access to the game.

In December, Yuga Labs appointed Daniel Alegre as CEO of Activision Blizzard.