Ethereum Startup Disappeared After Making $11

Prodeum, an Ethereum startup disappeared from the web on Sunday after raising a grand total of $11 USD from investors in a crowd sale.

Today, Prodeum’s website redirects visitors to the Twitter account of a Cryptocurrency trader (they did not immediately respond to our request for comment), and its Twitter account has been deactivated.

The Prodeum website, for what it’s worth, is flashy and overall very well done. To throw off the suspicious, if you click a photo of any of Prodeum’s staff, you’re taken to that person’s associated LinkedIn profile. It also appears, as Buzzfeed journalist Ryan Mac noted on Twitter, that the startup was paying people on Fiverr to promote the ICO by writing “Prodeum” on their bodies. Still, it doesn’t seem like all the promotion was enough to make Prodeum’s crowdsale profitable.