The HIRE launch wallets
trenchbook.app · The HIRE launch wallets · updated Oct 17, 2026 · trenchbook.app/file/hire-launch-wallets
The wallets that launched $HIRE and $HIVE, bought and sold in their launch blocks, and collected 716 SOL in creator fees, most of it sent on to one Kraken deposit address.
Named for what it did on the chain. Who controls these wallets is only stated where a published piece establishes it.
Coins
Summary
HIRE sells an AI marketing team for memecoins, paid for with a share of every coin's fees. On 12 October 2026 the wallet that created $HIRE, CB83…11ZZQ, bought 22% of supply in the creation transaction and sold it all two seconds later. It had done the same with $HIVE three days earlier. In the same block as $HIRE's creation, one transaction signed together by FTWpt…KQgg and two other wallets bought 7.83%, and a second, signed by two more wallets together, bought 4.14%. All five launch-block wallets sold everything within 17 minutes.
Since launch day, HIRE's central wallet has sent the launch wallet the SOL from its sells, and FTWpt received 20.3% of the claimed fees and sold them. The launch wallet has collected 716.45 SOL in pump.fun creator fees over six claims, from both coins. After five of the six claims it sent SOL within minutes to the same Kraken deposit address, 2Qkc…L7yv, 713 SOL in all. FTWpt sent the same address 87.5 SOL, and one of the launch-block buyers sent it 10.23 SOL in May. On 15 October the launch wallet paid FTWpt 30 SOL directly.
Nobody has been identified behind any of these wallets.
Our conviction
Conviction that the launch wallet and FTWpt's three-wallet group are run together: 75 out of 100. For it: FTWpt bought in the same block the launch wallet created $HIRE, in a transaction that needed three wallets' keys; the two pay the same exchange deposit address, repeatedly and minutes apart; the launch wallet paid FTWpt 30 SOL directly; and both paid identical 2.7 SOL amounts, with order memos, to the same address. Against it: an exchange deposit address can be shared, and none of these transfers is impossible between separate people. 75 is below the 80 we need to state a tie as fact, so this file states the links, not the conclusion. No person is named because no one has been tied to any of these wallets.
For the two-wallet pair C8jx…KXRdp and ErXe…1B64: we found no transfer between them and the other wallets. They bought in the same block and sold the same way, nothing more.
SOL that reached these wallets (as of 17 Oct 2026, 11:06 PM ET)
From transactions linked on our dispatch. Creator fees are pump.fun's standard payment to a coin's creator and cover both $HIRE and $HIVE.| Source | Wallets | SOL |
|---|---|---|
| Creator fees, six claims, 12–17 Oct | launch wallet | 716.45 |
| $HIRE launch sale, net of the buy | launch wallet | 12.00 |
| $HIVE launch sale, net of the buy | launch wallet | 3.05 |
| HIRE central wallet's sell proceeds, 12–14 Oct | launch wallet | 23.06 |
| $HIRE launch-block buys and sells, net | FTWpt and four others | 18.90 |
| Sent to the Kraken deposit address 2Qkc…L7yv | launch wallet 713, FTWpt 87.5 | 800.50 |
Timeline (ET)
newest first- Oct 17, 2026, 8:38 PM ET
Sixth claim, 18.98 SOL; two minutes later, 19 SOL to the same address.
- Oct 15, 2026, 8:36 PM ET
Fifth claim, 22.13 SOL. Two minutes later FTWpt sends 19.5 SOL to the same address; at 9:25 PM ET the launch wallet sends FTWpt 30 SOL directly.
- Oct 15, 2026, 1:48 AM ET
Fourth claim, 56.93 SOL; 41 seconds later, 50 SOL to the same address.
- Oct 13, 2026, 7:12 PM ET
Third claim, 40.28 SOL; four minutes later, 41 SOL to the same address.
- Oct 13, 2026, 9:22 AM ET
Second claim, 108.16 SOL; a minute later, 108 SOL to the same address. FTWpt had sent it 5.5 SOL two minutes earlier.
- Oct 13, 2026, 1:42 AM ET
The launch wallet sends 495 SOL to the Kraken deposit address 2Qkc…L7yv; 87 seconds later FTWpt sends it 62.5 SOL.
- Oct 12, 2026, 8:35 PM ET
First creator-fee claim: 469.98 SOL.
- Oct 12, 2026, 12:00 PM ET
HIRE's central wallet sends FTWpt 20.3% of the fees it has claimed so far, and FTWpt starts selling it within seconds. Across the day the central wallet also sends the launch wallet the SOL from seven of its eight sells, 15.88 SOL.
- Oct 12, 2026, 9:55 AM ET
The last of the five launch-block wallets, FTWpt, finishes selling; together they received 25.22 SOL for 6.32 SOL spent.
- Oct 12, 2026, 9:39 AM ET
The launch wallet sells all its $HIRE for 20.08 SOL.
- Oct 12, 2026, 9:38 AM ET
The launch wallet creates $HIRE and buys 22.37% for 8.08 SOL. In the same block, FTWpt, HXSs…rgdn and 6GAT…qC83 buy 7.83% in one transaction they sign together, and C8jx…KXRdp and ErXe…1B64 buy 4.14% in another.
- Oct 9, 2026, 10:14 AM ET
24 seconds after @UseHivepad announces Hive, the launch wallet creates $HIVE, buys about 9.6% for 3.04 SOL and sells it two seconds later for 6.09 SOL.
The wallets
9 on fileFrom our dispatch
- Who controls the launch wallet, FTWpt and the other launch-block wallets.
- Whether the C8jx…KXRdp pair is tied to FTWpt's group.
- How the 716.45 SOL in creator fees splits between $HIRE and $HIVE.
- Who 21wG4F…TTgv is.
- Whether the missed airdrop shares will be made up.
Related
Mentions in the trenchbook
newest first- DISPATCHOct 12, 2026, 1:17 PM ET
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