Altcoins News

Story: MemeCore’s M Token Loses 80% in Hours, Wiping Out $3 Billion as Insider Manipulation…

By Steven Anderson

1 / 15

ZachXBT Saw Something Coming. Back in April, onchain investigator ZachXBT had already flagged the M token as suspicious.

2 / 15

No Exploit, No Catalyst — Just a Crash. What makes the M token situation particularly murky is the absence of any identifiable trigger.

3 / 15

Community on Edge, Answers Still Missing. The crypto community's reaction has been a mix of shock and deep skepticism.

4 / 15

MemeCore's M token cratered. Within hours, it fell from nearly $3 all the way down to roughly $0.

5 / 15

No hack. No announcement. Nothing. The speed of it caught people off guard, and the silence from MemeCore made everything worse. No representative, no spokesperson, no statement.

6 / 15

Back in April, onchain investigator ZachXBT had already flagged the M token as suspicious. His concern at the time: the price might have been artificially pumped by insiders.

7 / 15

ZachXBT's track record on calls like this is well-known in the crypto world. He's flagged manipulated tokens before, often well ahead of blowups.

8 / 15

The idea of insider-driven price inflation isn't new in crypto. It's kind of a recurring story — a token gets hyped, wallets connected to the team or early investors quietly…

9 / 15

What makes the M token situation particularly murky is the absence of any identifiable trigger. Security researchers didn't flag a breach. No protocol exploit was reported.

10 / 15

That's unusual. An 80% move in a matter of hours typically has something attached to it — a hack, a rug, a forced liquidation cascade, a team wallet dumping.

11 / 15

More context: Eco CEO Ryne Saxe Tells Congress: Stablecoin Fears Are Overblown

12 / 15

Investors are grappling with significant losses and no clear path forward. The token's value remains near that $0.

13 / 15

Speculation about internal factors — insider selling, coordinated dumping, team wallet activity — is running hot on social platforms. None of it is confirmed.

14 / 15

It's worth noting how quickly things can move in markets like this. Crypto's volatility is well-documented, and rapid price swings happen.

15 / 15

Read also: $5.1 Million Hits Tornado Cash in 20 Transactions After jaredfromsubway.eth Exploit

The Currency Analytics

Want the full story?