Arkham tracking data shows that around 9:20 this morning, Vitalik's address vitalik.eth used 0.082 ether (about US$249.63) to exchange 30,303 ANON tokens.
The wallet address of Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin initiated a transaction earlier today (21st), which attracted the attention of the community in a short period of time. Many people speculated that he might be interested in the technology of the anonymous social platform Anoncast, which prompted the price of ANON to soar by more than 600%.
Arkham tracking data shows that around 9:15 this morning, Vitalik's address vitalik.eth used 0.082 ether (about US$249.63) to exchange 30,303 ANON tokens.
Soon after, an analysis pointed out that Vitalik Buterin might have been attracted by Anoncast’s zero-knowledge (ZK) technology and wanted to post on the platform, which required holding at least 30,000 ANONs, so he bought these tokens.
CoinGecko market data shows that since Vitalik Buterin bought the ANON token, the price of the token has risen from US$0.007918 to US$0.05543 at the time of writing, an increase of more than 600%.
According to reports, ANON is an anonymous social token that combines ZK proof technology. It is created by anonymous users through the Superanon account and the AI Agent account @clanker in the Farcaster ecosystem. Users need to hold a certain number of ANON tokens to use related functions, such as anonymous posting and community promotion.
However, shortly after Vitalik Buterin purchased the ANON token, Anoncast developer Slokh announced on Warpcast that the "posting threshold would be reduced by 50%", from the original 30,000 ANON to 15,000 ANON.
