ApeMars token APRZ suffered a near-total collapse shortly after its Uniswap debut. According to the source material, at 06:10 AM UTC on June 7, 2026, the APRZ/WETH pair fell from $0.005800 to $0.00000032 within minutes, a drop of 99.95%. DexScreener logged only 11 trades during that five-minute stretch, while Bitcoin remained steady in the same period, pointing to a project-specific breakdown rather than a broader market move.
Presale closed one day before listing with more than $532,000 raised
The timeline in the report says the ApeMars presale ended at 9:25 PM UTC on June 5, 2026. Total funds raised reached $532,969.34, with 1,884 holders participating across 23 stages. The final presale price was listed at $0.00012506 per APRZ. The token then launched on Uniswap at 08:00 AM UTC on June 6, opening near $0.00584, close to the stated listing target of $0.0055. Based on the figures cited, stage 1 buyers who entered at $0.00001699 were briefly sitting on a paper gain of 344x.
Social media channels went quiet as the price crashed
The sharp move in price coincided with a communications blackout. The project’s X account stopped posting, its Instagram account disappeared, and no team member issued a public statement on any other platform. The Telegram group kept posting welcome GIFs, but there was no explanation from admins. As of June 10, 2026, DexScreener showed the APRZ/WETH pair with only $1,400 in remaining liquidity, a market cap of roughly $75,000, and a 2.27% gain over the previous 24 hours, though that move came from an almost zero base. No new team communication had appeared by that point.
Two explanations still fit the available facts
The source outlines two scenarios. The first is a liquidity drain, commonly described in crypto as a rug pull. If someone with control over the Uniswap liquidity pool removed the ETH backing from the APRZ/WETH pair, the token price would lose support immediately and even limited selling could send it straight down. A 99.95% crash across only 11 trades matches that pattern closely. The simultaneous silence across social channels also adds weight to that reading.
The second scenario is panic selling triggered by an external event. The report notes that X account suspensions can result from coordinated mass-reporting. If the project’s disappearance from X happened independently of the team, traders may still have interpreted it as a warning and rushed to sell. For a newly listed token with thin liquidity, that kind of selling pressure can produce a vertical collapse very quickly. One detail prevents a fully closed case: the ApeMars website and claim page reportedly remained live after the crash. Teams planning a clean exit often take those pages down as well, so that point leaves a narrow technical opening for an alternative explanation.
Warnings had already surfaced weeks earlier
The material also cites an independent review from TheHolyCoins in March 2026. That review flagged several early concerns: no working product, no GitHub repository, no technical architecture in the whitepaper, and a fundraising structure built entirely around narrative. Those issues were public about six weeks before the collapse.
For holders, the immediate issue is asset safety
Without a response from the team, the situation remains an unresolved risk event rather than a legally confirmed verdict. The source advises holders not to send ETH or any other funds to ApeMars-linked addresses, and not to open so-called recovery links circulating in Telegram. It says phishing sites aimed at APRZ holders appeared within hours of the crash. Wallet addresses, transaction hashes, and purchase records should be preserved in case of complaints or any coordinated action later. The report also warns against buying APRZ at current levels, because with only $1,400 in liquidity, any trade can move the market sharply and make exits extremely expensive.