1/ One of the lesser known figures in the space is Darkpool Liquidity a market maker (MM)
After reviewing the pitch deck there were a number of services that are straight market manipulation and not standard at ALL by MMs in the space
They play a role in a lot of the cash grabs
2/ To summarize the pic above:
-offers washtrading to artifically boost volume
-frontrunning and selling assets w/o affecting the market price
-spoofing
Well the next question is who even uses this MM?
3/ Well mostly Polkastarter projects use this MM as well as a number of other launchpads on here
One thing a lot of these projects have in common is large unlocks at TGE, vesting for 6 months or less, & a huge % of token supply to the seed/private round & advisors (20-30%+)
4/ After speaking with a few people well versed in the MM space they said it was very surprising this verbiage would be used so openly in a pitch deck
The rest seems to be almost copied from some where since it’s very generic
5/If you have done 50+ projects you more than likely should have $5m+ in AUM
Unless you’re not the main MM or just are a bad negotiator
6/ It is pretty clear what is being done here… please stay folks and do proper DD before putting your $$$ into projects
1/ An investigation into how the threat actor Serpent went from a pro Fortnite player to helping steal $3.5M via meme coin scams launched from 9+ account compromises on X & IG and gambling the proceeds away at online casinos.
2/ Serpent (SerpentAU) is a former pro Fortnite player from Australia who was released from the esports organization ‘Overtime’ after being caught allegedly cheating in June 2020.
He then co-founded the NFT project DAPE in March 2022 which later rug pulled.
3/ In March 2024 Serpent launched another project called ERROR which rug pulled and got him banned from X.
1/ Over the past few months I have been tracking a series of related compromises for McDonald’s, Usher, Kabosu Owner, Andy Ayrey, Wiz Khalifa, SPX 6900, etc on X & IG which has resulted in an estimated $3.5M+ stolen via launching Pump Fun meme coins.
2/ On Aug 21, 2024 the McDonald’s IG became compromised and a post was made promoting the bundled meme coin GRIMACE and the hacker began trolling after.
$690K+ from the pump and dump was consolidated to two wallets.
3/ On Sep 3, 2024 the McDonalds attacker transferred 101.5 SOL to two addresses which deployed and sniped SCHRADER after the Actor Dean Norris had his X account hacked.
1/ An investigation into the social engineering scammer Ronaldd (Ronald Spektor) who allegedly helped steal $6.5M last month from a single victim by impersonating Coinbase support.
2/ A US based victim sent me a DM on Oct 7, 2024 after receiving a call from a spoofed number impersonating Coinbase support where they were coerced in to using a phishing site.
3/ An initial tracing of the theft saw all of the stolen funds flow to eXch on Ethereum and Bitcoin where funds were converted to Litecoin and transferred to numerous services.
1/ Time to share how SCALE, NTD, TPU, & OPSEC projects were all tied to the same person Zopp0 to farm naive traders using numerous influencers shown in leaked messages.
2/ While paying others to be the face of OPSEC behind the scenes he was involved with key decisions as the owner in private Telegram chats.
Here is him talking about the lack of technical research.
I then confronted him over DM about this in March 2024 which he downplayed.
Then in a leaked private chat here is him chatting about me obtaining this screenshot.
3/ Zopp0 and his friend SZB discuss how they messed up bundling for NTD/TPU and worry it will trace back to them.
No posts have been made from @NTensorDynamics @tensorspace_ai since April.
1/ Meet Yicong Wang (王逸聪), a Chinese OTC trader who has helped Lazarus Group convert tens of millions of stolen crypto to cash from various hacks via bank transfers since 2022.
2/ A follower reached out to me a few months ago after having their exchange account frozen after completing a P2P transaction with Yicong Wang an OTC who has used pseudonyms like Seawang, Greatdtrader, & BestRhea977
3/ They then shared one of Yicong Wang’s Tron wallet addresses with me from a screenshot of their WeChat conversation.
1/ A short story about how the influencer @0xjaypeg got caught lying to the community three times this weekend about an allocation for a project all for $2.2K.
2/ A project reached out to Jaypeg who agreed to promote a meme coin for 2% of the supply.
8jpz1pDotD7NVBWuYQgfSNX2CAVTp6wyD5Jgg7d5515B
After sending his wallet address in the chat Jaypeg deleted his message and lied saying he never received tokens and claimed it was not his wallet.