In a surprising turn of events, the carpet-pulling incident involving the BALD coin meme on Coinbase's layer 2 Base platform has taken an unexpected turn.
On the morning of August 1, the crypto Twitter community was abuzz as multiple Twitter accounts presented evidence, from language samples to onchain data, suggesting a potential connection between the developer of t-35/> and former CEO of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried.
The controversy began with Twitter detectives closely analyzing the wording used in BALD's tweets and comments. They noticed similarities between the language used by BALD and Sam Bankman-Fried, such as starting answers with the word “Yes” or the word “nor,” which were common in Sam's speech. . Additionally, phrases like “quite good” are also used as keywords for comparison.
The evidence presented by “Twitter detectives” goes beyond linguistic similarities; They also looked closely at symbols frequently used by Sam and compared them to those used on BALD's Twitter account.
Furthermore, on-chain activity provides additional clues. Several Ethereum addresses are linked to BALD-related carpet-pulling incidents, with one address, 0xccFa0530B9d52f970d1A2dAEa670ce58E4176389, believed to belong to the development team. This address was found to have interacted with other significant transactions in the past.
Another address, 0x000f7f22bfC28D940d4B68e13213aB17cf107790, is also connected to address 0xccFa and shows ties to #FTX, Alameda Research and the UST loss of latch that contributed to LUNA's downfall.
Furthermore, a link was discovered to SushiSwap in the early days. The address 0xccFa was actively participating in voting on the platform when SushiSwap was launched in August 2020. Notably, it was during this time that SushiSwap founder Chef Nomi made a carpet-pulling move on the platform. Some Twitter users have drawn parallels between the actions of Chef Nomi and Sam Bankman-Fried, speculating that Sam may be behind both incidents.
However, different views have emerged in response to these statements. Igor Igambediev, Head of Research at Wintermute, argued that the 0xccFa address does not belong to Sam Bankman-Fried, but to someone else from FTX/Alameda Research—specifically, former Alameda CEO Sam Trabucco.
Igor's conclusion is based on observations that the 0xccFa address is indeed involved in the DeFi space, interacting with top traders on dYdX, holding #NFTs POAP from Yearn Finance's launch event on 2020 and participate in yield farming using various tokens.
The Arkham Intelligence research platform was used to establish a connection between addresses 0xccFa and 0x000f. The second address primarily interacts with various trading platforms, with a significantly larger number of trades on FTX, including some related to Alameda Research. However, it does not participate in material FTT transactions.
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