MudsBet requested a $20 USDT withdrawal from Degen City. What arrived in the wallet was $10. The other ten dollars, according to live support, evaporated into a gas fee that had supposedly spiked from $0.30 to $4 in the time it took to process the transaction.

That is a 1,233 percent increase, a figure that would make any blockchain blush if blockchains were capable of embarrassment. The support agent attributed the shortfall to "fluctuation in gas fees," a phrase doing an extraordinary amount of heavy lifting for what looks, from the outside, like a casino simply pocketing half the withdrawal and hoping nobody asks follow-up questions.

MudsBet tagged co-founder @samutch and streamer @TheDoctorGamble with the kind of question that ought to have a straightforward answer: if the site displayed incorrect gas fees at the time of withdrawal, how exactly is that the player's fault? Neither has responded. Twenty minutes after the initial post, MudsBet followed up with the kind of review no marketing department wants screenshotted: "Stay away from this shady site."

A pattern of silence

The disappearing withdrawal lands at an awkward moment for DegenCity. The casino has spent the past week dodging methodical RTP allegations from a user named Edras, who has been working through the brand's mentions claiming its slots return 84 to 87 percent against an industry standard of 95 to 97 percent. The Daily Tilt covered the saga and its ongoing escalation. Through all of it, DegenCity has maintained a consistent policy of answering uncomfortable questions by pretending they were never asked.

That strategy appears to be holding. In the hours since MudsBet's complaint, the official DegenCity account has been busy hyping a Pragmatic Play slot called Jade Legends and posting video of UFC fighter Dan Hooker living his best life. The weekly bonus went out on schedule. Giveaway winners were told their PFPs go hard. The content calendar is relentless. Individual players asking where their money went, evidently less of a priority.

DegenCity's tagline is "The city is ours." Between a week of unanswered RTP allegations and now a withdrawal that arrived at half its listed value with a gas-fee shrug, the question of who exactly "ours" refers to is starting to answer itself.