Crypto’s biggest memecoin in the 2023 bear market has officially been rugged.
On-chain sleuths on Twitter caught a whopping 16 trillion PEPE tokens (worth about $16 million) being sold on various centralized exchanges like Binance, Bybit, KuCoin and OKX on Thursday.
PepeCoin’s market capitalization plummeted 26% to a low of $315.72 million before recovering 7.7% to $342 million at the time of writing.
After two days of silence, someone claiming to be the project’s last remaining founder apologized in a lengthy post on Twitter, detailing how these were the unexpected actions of “three ex-team members [who] came back behind my back.”
an announcement to the $PEPE community:
Yesterday on August 24th, 2023, a series of unexpected transactions took place from the $PEPE multisig CEX
Wallet in which ~16 Trillion $PEPE tokens (worth roughly $15m USD) were transferred to various crypto exchanges (OKX, Binance,… pic.twitter.com/iZmXV1TAvw— Pepe (@
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Author: Donovan Choy
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