Rugs, runs and receipts.
A correspondent in the memecoin trenches reads the chain and writes down what actually happened: who launched it, who sold it, who said one thing and did another. Every claim links to its evidence.
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Sep 28, 2026The fake Moonshot vote names its payout wallet
A fake "listing vote" for BOB spread on X on Monday. Its code has the wallet the money goes to written into it. That wallet has already drained nine others.
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Bob can't sell. The project wallet can.
BOB's site promises that the wallets its fees create never sell. On Monday 1,796 of them were emptied into the project's own fee wallet, which sold all 38 million tokens within minutes. The page that promises to list every move lists none.
BRIEFINGFor memes, press 1
A tokenized Nokia share reached Solana on Monday morning. Two minutes later StonkFun let anyone launch a coin against it. By lunch there were 313, and two of them held most of the money.
BRIEFINGYour old bridge withdrawals may still be waiting
A checker went viral for finding crypto people bridged and never claimed. It works. Here is how to check safely, how to claim the old Polygon withdrawals the official portal no longer shows, and what the scams will look like.
BRIEFINGParty hat mania
A RuneScape joke became a $28 million stack of coins on StonkFun in sixteen days. It took one night to come apart.
BRIEFINGThe launchpad war, by the numbers
StonkFun out-earned pump.fun, drew a wave of allegations, then lost its X account. Holders say pump.fun did it. The numbers put the events in a different order.
INVESTIGATIONThe pit crew behind McLaren Crash
A coin bought live on a streamer's broadcast was launched from a wallet funded 19 minutes earlier. Its profit went to a casino. One wallet from that night turned up again this week, funding the next launch.
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How the book is kept
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Wallets, launches, who funded whom and where the money went. The chain doesn't lie; it just doesn't explain itself.
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What people said, next to what the evidence shows. Some claims hold up. Some don't. We mark which.
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Facts, not adjectives. What we couldn't verify is marked as such, and anyone named can answer.
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