Some vanished into the ocean, others into thin air. A few weren’t even dead.

Zerebro developer Jeffy Yu: who's not in anyway related to @k00b, @ek nor @DarthCoin, has been found alive at his parents’ home in San Francisco, days after faking his suicide on a livestream that launched a supposed posthumous memecoin past $100 million.

Yu’s case isn’t the first time crypto has blurred the line between real death, faked death and something in between.

From missing founders to sealed caskets, the industry has a long history of exits that left behind more questions than closure.

Here are five unsettling cases — real, staged or unresolved — that continue to haunt the crypto world.

Jeffy Yu faked his death, then his crypto pumped A clip of Yu broadcasting his “suicide” circulated on May 4. The video showed him smoking a cigarette before pulling the trigger, then the camera dropped.

Hours later, a scheduled social media post announced the posthumous launch of LLJEFFY, a memecoin described as his “final art piece.” The coin surged to nearly $105 million in market cap