fomo co-founder denies an unproven iOS exploit claim

The claim

At 10:05 UTC on 23 August 2026 an X account posted that the latest fomo iOS update, shipped hours earlier as “small bug fixes”, must contain something malicious. It said a friend had watched 662 SOL leave his wallet while the app still showed the balance, that only iOS was affected and that losses were “around $6m so far”. It told people to delete the app. It named no other victims and gave no method for the $6 million.

The denial

About two hours later fomo co-founder Prashan Dharmasena replied on X that people “can just come on this app and blatantly lie”, linked the transaction, and said the “victim” account had not a single transaction signed by fomo’s fee payer, the wallet fomo uses to pay network fees for its users’ trades.

What the outlets found

Protos confirmed that a real transfer of 662 SOL left the cited wallet 14 minutes before the post. It did not find anything linking that transfer to the app, and it noted Dharmasena’s point is narrower than saying the wallet never touched fomo. Protos also reported that ZachXBT, an on-chain investigator, had previously identified the account behind the claim as a co-founder of ZKasino, a project accused of taking investor funds. The app stayed in the App Store. Crypto Economy reported the same facts the same day.

What we could not verify

Whether anyone lost funds because of the app, and the $6 million figure. We found no later evidence either way, and no forensic report. fomo says its wallets are non-custodial, held by you rather than by fomo. Only install fomo from the official app stores, and see our support and scams guide and is fomo legit?.