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LACE Airdrop by Lovelace World: What Actually Happened and Why It Vanished

Posted 28 Oct by Peregrine Grace 17 Comments

LACE Airdrop by Lovelace World: What Actually Happened and Why It Vanished

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There was a time in late 2021 when every crypto project promised an airdrop. You’d sign up, connect your wallet, and wait for free tokens. Lovelace World was one of them. They talked about building a LACE token-powered metaverse-as-a-service platform, letting creators launch NFT marketplaces and Play-to-Earn games across Cardano, Ethereum, and Solana. It sounded promising. But here’s the truth: there was never a real LACE airdrop. Not one you could claim. Not one that ever delivered.

What Was LACE Supposed to Be?

LACE was the utility token for Lovelace World, a project that wanted to be the toolkit for building metaverses-not a metaverse itself. Unlike Decentraland or The Sandbox, which built their own virtual worlds, Lovelace claimed to give developers the tools to build their own. Their first product was Adanimals: 10,000 NFT characters on Cardano meant to be used in future games. The tokenomics were complex: 250 million LACE total, with 22% set aside for "Rewards." That’s where people assumed the airdrop lived.

But "Rewards" didn’t mean "free tokens for early supporters." It meant staking rewards, team incentives, and ecosystem grants-none of which were ever publicly distributed. No claim portal. No snapshot dates. No wallet addresses added to a list. No announcements on Twitter or Telegram. Just a line in a whitepaper.

The Token Distribution That Never Played Out

According to CryptoTotem’s 2021 analysis, LACE’s supply was split like this:

  • 22% - Rewards
  • 21% - Reserve Fund
  • 20% - Team
  • 12% - Private Sale
  • 10% - Liquidity
  • 5% - Advisors
  • 4% - Seed
  • 4% - Public Sale
  • 2% - NFT Sale

Public sale? Yes. You could buy LACE on BSCPad, ADAPad, and Paid Ignition in November 2021. But only 4% of the total supply-10 million tokens-was ever sold to the public. The rest? Locked up. Team tokens? No vesting schedule was ever published. Reserve fund? Never explained. And the 22% "Rewards"? Still sitting there, untouched.

As of October 2023, CoinMarketCap showed only 19.47 million LACE in circulation-less than 8% of the total supply. That’s not a sign of growth. It’s a sign of stagnation. If rewards were being paid out, the circulating supply would be climbing. It didn’t.

No Exchange Listings. No Price. No Activity.

Here’s the brutal part: LACE has had $0 trading volume for over a year. No major exchange lists it-not Binance, not KuCoin, not Coinbase. Not even a small altcoin exchange. CoinMarketCap shows its price as $0. That’s not a glitch. That’s a tombstone.

Compare that to The Sandbox (SAND), which partnered with Adidas and Atari. Or Gala Games, which hit over a million monthly active users. Lovelace World had zero verifiable users. No analytics. No community stats. No Telegram group with more than a few hundred members. No Reddit threads. No Twitter engagement. In crypto, silence isn’t golden-it’s death.

A hand holds LACE tokens while shadowy figures loom behind labels for team and reserve funds.

Why Did It Fail?

Lovelace World launched right after Cardano’s smart contract upgrade in September 2021. That was a great timing play-if they’d delivered. But they didn’t. Cardano’s NFT ecosystem moved slowly. Ethereum was already the home of NFTs. Solana was exploding. And Lovelace? They promised cross-chain support but never built the bridges.

Their roadmap vanished. Their website stopped updating. Their Discord went quiet. The Adanimals NFTs? Still sitting in wallets, unused. No games launched. No marketplaces went live. No staking program activated. The "Rewards" allocation? Just a number on a chart.

Worse, the team kept 20% of the token supply with no clear vesting. That’s a red flag. In crypto, when a team holds a large chunk of tokens without a lock-up, it’s a signal they might dump later. And with no trading volume, no one’s buying. So they can’t dump. The project is stuck-dead in the water.

What Happened to the LACE Tokens You Might Have Bought?

If you bought LACE during the IDO in late 2021, you’re holding a token with no utility, no exchange, and no future. You can’t spend it. You can’t stake it. You can’t trade it. The only place it exists is in your wallet, slowly losing value as the project fades into obscurity.

Some people held on, hoping for a revival. Others sold for pennies on the dollar. But no one ever got an airdrop. No one ever got rewarded. The "Rewards" allocation was never activated. It was never even announced. It was just marketing language.

A quiet digital graveyard with tombstones for failed crypto promises, one NFT glowing softly in the center.

Is There Any Hope for LACE?

As of October 2025, there’s no evidence Lovelace World is still active. No new team members. No GitHub commits. No blog posts. No press releases. The CoinMooner "2025 update" mentioned in some articles? It’s a ghost reference-no details, no links, no substance.

Projects like this don’t die with a bang. They die with a whisper. No announcement. No farewell. Just silence. And that’s what happened to LACE.

What You Should Learn From This

Not every airdrop is real. Not every project has a team that follows through. And not every token with a fancy whitepaper is worth holding.

If a project says "Rewards" but never explains how, when, or to whom-they’re probably not planning to give anything away. If they don’t list on any major exchange after three years, they’re not serious. If their community has vanished, they’re gone.

Always check:

  • Is there a live, active community?
  • Is the token listed anywhere?
  • Is there trading volume?
  • Has the team published anything in the last 6 months?
  • Are the "Rewards" or "Airdrop" terms clearly defined, or just vague buzzwords?

LACE was a cautionary tale. It wasn’t a scam-it was a ghost. And the biggest mistake? Believing the hype instead of checking the facts.

Comments(17)
  • Ron Murphy

    Ron Murphy

    October 29, 2025 at 10:13

    LACE was never an airdrop-it was a bait-and-switch wrapped in a whitepaper. They used "Rewards" like a magic word to get wallets connected, then vanished. No snapshot, no claim portal, no transparency. Just a 22% slice of token supply that never moved. Classic crypto ghosting.

  • Prateek Kumar Mondal

    Prateek Kumar Mondal

    October 29, 2025 at 18:01

    Same story every time. Hype then silence. No exchange no volume no team updates. Just a token sitting in wallets like digital dust. Learn the lesson and move on.

  • Nick Cooney

    Nick Cooney

    October 31, 2025 at 14:55

    Wow. So the team held 20% with no vesting? And the "Rewards" allocation? Pure theater. I mean, if you're gonna scam people, at least make the whitepaper look like it was written by someone who knows what a semicolon is. This was a PowerPoint deck from 2017 with a blockchain sticker slapped on it.

  • Wayne Overton

    Wayne Overton

    November 1, 2025 at 12:33

    you bought it you lost it stop crying

  • Alisa Rosner

    Alisa Rosner

    November 2, 2025 at 06:02

    So many people got burned by this 😢 I remember when I first saw the Adanimals NFTs-they were so cute! But then nothing happened. No games, no marketplace, no staking. Just... quiet. Always check if the team is even still alive before you invest. It’s not just about the token-it’s about the people behind it.

  • Anna Mitchell

    Anna Mitchell

    November 4, 2025 at 01:23

    I held LACE for over a year hoping it would wake up. It didn’t. The silence was louder than any announcement. Sometimes the biggest red flag isn’t what they did-it’s what they never said.

  • Pranav Shimpi

    Pranav Shimpi

    November 5, 2025 at 19:24

    why did anyone believe this project? cardano devs were busy building real stuff while this team was busy making powerpoint slides. 22 percent rewards? lol. no snapshot no claim no nothing. you were never meant to get anything. just give them your wallet and disappear

  • jummy santh

    jummy santh

    November 6, 2025 at 21:49

    In Nigeria, we call this "Oga no work again." The project had all the signs: big promises, no progress, no updates, and a team that vanished like smoke. Crypto is global, but the patterns of failure? Universal. Always verify. Always ask: who is actually doing the work?

  • Kirsten McCallum

    Kirsten McCallum

    November 7, 2025 at 18:02

    It wasn’t a scam. It was worse. A scam has intent. This had negligence dressed as ambition. A project that never even tried. That’s the real tragedy.

  • Henry Gómez Lascarro

    Henry Gómez Lascarro

    November 9, 2025 at 04:52

    Let me tell you something, and I’ve seen every crypto bubble since 2017. This wasn’t even a bad project-it was an insult. They didn’t just fail to deliver, they failed to even *pretend* to care. 22% for "rewards"? That’s not a tokenomics model, that’s a tax on hope. And the fact that people still defend this? That’s the real crypto horror story. You don’t need to be a genius to see this was dead on arrival. You just need to be able to read.

  • Will Barnwell

    Will Barnwell

    November 10, 2025 at 13:29

    Why is this even a post? We all know this story. Another ghost chain. Another "metaverse-as-a-service" that never serviced anything. The only thing that got delivered was the lesson: don’t trust buzzwords.

  • Matt Zara

    Matt Zara

    November 10, 2025 at 16:01

    Hey, I know it’s painful to lose money on something you believed in. But the real win here? You didn’t lose your integrity. You didn’t go full moonboy and start shilling it on Twitter. You read the facts. That’s more than most people can say. Keep your head down, keep learning, and next time, check the GitHub commits before you connect your wallet.

  • Jean Manel

    Jean Manel

    November 10, 2025 at 23:21

    20% team allocation with zero vesting? That’s not incompetence. That’s malice. They knew no one would ever get the tokens. They just needed your wallet address to inflate their vanity metrics. This isn’t crypto. It’s a Ponzi with a whitepaper.

  • William P. Barrett

    William P. Barrett

    November 11, 2025 at 16:48

    There’s a quiet philosophy here: the most dangerous projects aren’t the ones that lie. They’re the ones that never said anything at all. LACE didn’t deceive you-it abandoned you. And in crypto, silence is the final betrayal. No announcement. No apology. Just a token with no home, no purpose, and no future. That’s not a failure. That’s a funeral.

  • Cory Munoz

    Cory Munoz

    November 12, 2025 at 03:45

    Just wanted to say I feel you. I bought LACE too. Thought it was the next big thing. But honestly? The real lesson isn’t about the token. It’s about trusting your gut. When the community goes quiet, when the team stops posting, when the website looks like it was built in 2021 and never touched again… that’s your sign. You don’t need to be a crypto expert to see that. You just need to pay attention.

  • Jasmine Neo

    Jasmine Neo

    November 12, 2025 at 07:53

    USA and India are full of gullible fools who think "cross-chain metaverse-as-a-service" is a real business model. LACE was a joke. And the fact that people still defend it? That’s why crypto will never be mainstream. You can’t have a financial revolution built on wishful thinking and bad grammar in whitepapers.

  • Clarice Coelho Marlière Arruda

    Clarice Coelho Marlière Arruda

    November 12, 2025 at 22:15

    i still have my 500 lace in my wallet lol. like a fossil. sometimes i open it just to remember how dumb i was. but hey at least i learned. now i only invest in projects with real devs posting daily updates. and no "rewards" without a date. lol

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