Before its public mainnet even launched, HyperEVM's layer-2 blockchain, @Enter_Elysium, was exposed for allegedly engaging in centralized activities that maliciously extracted user value. This caused a huge uproar, with some community members being banned from Telegram and founder @0xOmnia being blocked for raising questions. This post briefly outlines the cause and effect of the incident: It started when someone in the Elysium builder group reported that a privileged address (0xD27392F3c657De75916fB1676855BfB56d6DeC8C) was running a MEV bot on a private node and reaping substantial profits on Launchpad. The team initially admitted to the issue and stated that they had revoked the relevant RPC permissions. However, the malicious MEV activity from this address continued, and the team then changed their story, explaining that the transactions were using the normal HyperEVM Delayed inbox path and that they were not abusing sorter permissions. Furthermore, the Elysium team's actions were questionable: users who persistently questioned the MEV issue were muted, and the founder's account (X) also blocked those who raised questions about the issue. Leaving aside conspiracy theories about whether these privileged MEV bots were orchestrated by Elysium internally, the Elysium team's attitude and actions towards those who questioned them were quite unusual. With only one day left before the official launch on the mainnet, instead of addressing the problems, they're targeting the people who raised them.