The "sell" price completed a full loop. Having run through $0.10, $0.0005, $0.02 and $0.01, the headline came back to "$0.05," now wrapped in "LESS THAN 72H: $0.05 BUYBACKS AND SWAP END FOREVER on Monday" (Monday is June 29). The "24 HOUR COUNTDOWN" posted June 28 was still a "24 HOUR COUNTDOWN" on June 29. And exactly as in mid-June, the network gave out during the closing deadline: admins confirmed "RPC is down, the team is working on updates," for days, with holders unable to claim or sell and balances vanishing (Jordan J. Jones: "My coins disappeared from my wallet, only blockdag miraculously vanished"). The $0.05 headline still paid a sliver, Cini18: "when I sell 50Mio for $0.05 I'll only get $458," about 0.018%. And the June 25 "48-hour" ChatGPT and Claude rival? It never appeared, and was never mentioned again.
The buyback got a festive new skin. The official channel launched a "24H ONLY WORLD CUP BONUS: 50% EXTRA BDAG + 45X ROI, BUY AT $0.00000044, SELL FOR $0.01," telling holders to enter a country code for bonus coins and a themed dashboard. Strip the football and it is the same compressed buyback, now with more coins issued and a bigger ROI number bolted on. One member cut through it: "you should change $0.00000044 to $0.00000022 and then discount football 50%." And asked the one question that matters, how much of the buyback has actually been paid, an admin said only that the team is "compiling and reviewing the relevant data" and that "amounts completed and remaining" will "be provided shortly." Weeks in, there is still no figure. "Batch 7 claims start tomorrow" slipped again, and miner deliveries reset, once more, to "within the next 20 days."
The same "LIVE SWAP, BUY $0.00000044, SELL $0.01, 30X ROI" promo was still running on June 23, alongside an admin statement that quietly undercuts the whole dashboard. Asked about the compressed payouts, an admin said the team "has emphasized a simpler structure with no compression," then added: "we are not in a position to independently verify or guarantee individual dashboard calculations." So the page the project calls "the official source of record" is one the team will not stand behind. Separately, an admin confirmed the original $0.05 price now has "no specific dates" attached, and Batch 6 claims still were "not confirmed." The story has not changed, only hardened.
A price that changes every day is a sale. Three different prices in the same week, some running at the same time, is not a sale. It is noise, and noise is the point.
Three sell prices, one 72 hour window
Here is what the official channel posted, word for word, between June 20 and 22:
Those are not a sequence of price updates. They overlapped. On June 20 alone the channel told holders to sell at $0.02 in the morning and at $0.01 in the evening. The "$0.0005" Ultimate Sale from June 19 was still being posted on June 21. So at any given moment a holder could open the channel and find two or three different "sell" prices, off by a factor of forty, all marked urgent. By June 22 the confusion was total. Angelina St Jean-Prunier: "Is the buyback legacy at $0.01 still going on or not? Because it looks like the buyback is at $0.00004."
Whatever the banner said, the payout was a fraction
The headline price barely matters, because the dashboard compresses what you actually receive to a sliver of it. A holder, Ghost Buster, ran the test on June 21:
"Sold 100,000,000 BDAG for 0.01, but it shows just $1320 USDT." — Community member Ghost Buster, June 21, 2026.
One hundred million BDAG at the advertised $0.01 is one million dollars. The dashboard credited $1,320. That is about 0.13 percent of the headline. Another holder, Homer Sm, put it bluntly across June 20: "the buyback price isn't 0.02, it's 0.000009," after a 429,000 BDAG sale came back worth about four dollars.
A dashboard screenshot shared by a holder shows that 429,000 sale on the project's own "My Sold Coins" page. It is the clearest receipt we have seen:
Effective price: $0.0000092 per BDAG, about 0.05% of the advertised $0.02
At $0.02 this sale would be $8,580. The dashboard pays $3.93.
Source: dashboard screenshot shared publicly by a holder, June 2026. The figures are the project's own; we reproduce them rather than republish the image.
The effective rate is not even consistent between holders. A second dashboard, shared by a different holder, shows 1,809,625,330 BDAG sold for $452,406, which works out to $0.00025 per coin, while a $71 million-coin sale on the same screen settled at $0.00005, and the $3.93 receipt above works out to $0.0000092. Same "Buyback Legacy SOLD" label, three different effective prices, none of them the advertised $0.02. The point is not a single magic number; it is that whatever you are paid is a small and unpredictable fraction of what the banner promised.
The number on the banner and the number in your account are not the same number, and they never have been. The same screenshots list the buyback "liquidity wallets" said to fund these payouts, four of them totalling about $68.5 million, the same figure community members have tracked for weeks against a committed sell volume that dwarfs it. One holder's screen alone showed over $627,000 in "sold" coins awaiting the October 1 date.
Then the one figure that let you check disappeared
The dashboard used to show a "total invested" or "total sales" figure, the running total of what a holder had put in. During this same window, that figure was removed. This is not only a community observation, although holders noticed immediately. An admin confirmed it on June 20:
"The removal of certain dashboard information... the visibility of the total sales amount in the dashboard have been noted and will be passed on to the team." — BlockDAG official admin, June 20, 2026.
Holders watched their own records shrink in real time. valus: "Why have dozens of transactions disappeared from my purchase history? My miner purchases have also disappeared." Yeshiwas: "Why are my total transactions and investments decreased on the dashboard?" İbrahim, on June 22, named what many were thinking:
"Removing the total sale price from the inheritance sales panel is a deliberate tactic, designed to create confusion and then buy back at the lowest possible price." — Community member İbrahim, June 22, 2026.
We cannot read the team's intent, and we do not assert it. What is verifiable is the sequence: the price holders are offered fragmented into several contradictory numbers, and the dashboard figure that would let them measure what they are owed was taken away, by the team's own admission, at the same time.
The rest of the week, in one breath
Around the price churn, the same posts kept stacking claims. The throughput figure rose again, from "5,000 TPS" to "5,500 TPS LIVE." A "Regulated Exchange Opening Next Month" appeared. "Batch 7 claims" were promised for the 23rd. And the Super App that was given a firm "August 20" launch date on June 19 was, by June 21, already described as "postponed." The October 1 payout, holders were told, will arrive as a USD balance inside that same Super App, which raised the question several asked and none got answered cleanly: will it be withdrawable, or only spendable in the app.
What we are watching next
Whether any single, stable buyback price is ever published. Whether the "total invested" figure returns to the dashboard or stays gone. Whether Batch 7 claims actually open. And whether the October 1 payout is real, withdrawable USDT or a number trapped inside an app that has already slipped its own launch date.
The practical takeaway is the simplest one we have written. When the same product carries three different prices in three days and the page that would let you check your own total is removed mid week, there is nothing left to act on except urgency. Urgency is not information. Wait for one price, one figure, and one payout someone can actually point to.