Inside a 30,000 phone bot farm stealing crypto airdrops from real users

A look inside the industrial-scale phone bot farms that fake activity to steal crypto airdrops away from genuine users.

It was in a refrigerated tin shed just 40 minutes from Ho Chi Minh City that Mirai Labs CEO Corey Wilton finally understood the immense scale by which crypto airdrops are being gamed. 

Its genuinely scary, Wilton tells Magazine shortly after visiting a phone farm in Southern Vietnam, which he estimates has at least 30,000 smartphones in a room no larger than a studio-sized apartment. 

For four years, Winton had been hoping to get a first-hand look at the type of operation that undermined his flagship NFT horse-racing game Pegaxy in 2021. 

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