Highlights this week: -Memechan token launch, sniper exits with ~$1M -D-list celebrity “Sexyy_Red” rugs Solana memecoin for less than $200K -Elon Musk mentions dogwifhat on stream, trader makes $105K in 90mins -Curve Founder liquidated for $140M
The value of memecoins held in Donald Trump’s wallet have crashed in the past week, with his memecoin portfolio down from highs of $33.15M (6th June) to a mere $11M currently.
His largest holding, TROG, wiped out 90% of its value, falling from $24.7M to $2.72M.
N.B. All of these memecoins have been sent to him by project developers - he has not purchased any himself.
$300M Alameda funds seized by the US Government - now on Arkham
In January 2023, 3 Alameda Research accounts on Binance and BinanceUS containing over $300M were seized by the US Government, as part of a forfeiture action of over $700M of FTX + Alameda assets.
The seized funds are now labeled on Arkham as part of our ‘US Government’ entity.
The seized funds include: $119.3M USDT $102.38M BTC + WBTC $28.35M BNB $26.26M ETH + WETH $13.62M BUSD
OKX currently appears to be consolidating thousands of UTXO’s to their hot wallet at over 10x the past 24h average fee.
There are currently so many transactions waiting for confirmation in the mempool that users must pay over 500 sats/vbyte in order to process a transaction right now (~$50-100 for an ordinary transfer).