The McLaren pit crew
A set of wallets behind the McLaren Crash pump, the $JACK launch and, on 2 October, a $JAIL launch-and-dump. Fresh wallets, exchange hops, minutes-long trades.
Named for what it did on the chain. Who controls these wallets is only stated where a published piece establishes it.
Coins
Who is the McLaren pit crew?
We don't know who controls these wallets. We call them a crew because the same money moves between them around launches: a coin's creator is funded minutes before launch, fresh wallets buy in the first seconds, and proceeds are gathered and moved on. The McLaren file lays out the first case, from November 2024.
On 2 October 2026 the MoonPay-funded wallet from that file, 7Vnm…, came back. It sent 11.5 SOL to a fresh wallet, 3iBW…, which spread it to more fresh wallets. Most of that went into exchange deposit addresses. Minutes later, six other fresh wallets, funded by withdrawals from exchange hot wallets, launched $JAIL and dumped it inside four minutes. They then sent all their SOL back to 3iBW… in the same second. We can't prove the withdrawals were the same money as the deposits; exchanges break that trail.
Where the money went, 26 Sep to 2 Oct 2026
each arrow links to its transaction- MoonPay-funded wallet → $JACK creator: 1.1 SOL, 3 min pre-launch, Sep 26, 2026, 1:42 PM ET · Our McLaren file ↗
- MoonPay-funded wallet → Collecting wallet: 11.5 SOL, Oct 2, 2026, 3:39 PM ET · transaction ↗
- Collecting wallet → Fresh wallet: 1 SOL, Oct 2, 2026, 3:39 PM ET · transaction ↗
- Collecting wallet → 5 fresh wallets: 5 x 2.098 SOL, Oct 2, 2026, 3:45 PM ET · transaction ↗
- 5 fresh wallets → Exchange deposits: 4 x 2.098 SOL, Oct 2, 2026, 3:50 PM ET · This file's timeline ↗
- Exchange hot wallets → 6 $JAIL wallets: ~2.05 SOL each, Oct 2, 2026, 3:50 PM ET · This file's timeline ↗
- 6 $JAIL wallets → $JAIL on pump.fun: create + buy ~11.4 SOL, Oct 2, 2026, 3:57 PM ET · $JAIL created ↗
- 6 $JAIL wallets → Collecting wallet: 17.3 SOL after selling, Oct 2, 2026, 4:03 PM ET · transaction ↗
- Collecting wallet → Holding wallet: 17.32 SOL, Oct 2, 2026, 4:04 PM ET · transaction ↗
2 October 2026 (ET)
newest first- Oct 2, 2026, 4:04 PM ET
3iBW… sends 17.32 SOL on to fresh wallet 4Wxf…, which hasn't moved it.
- Oct 2, 2026, 4:03 PM ET
All six send their SOL, 17.3 in total, to 3iBW… in the same second.
- Oct 2, 2026, 4:01 PM ET
The five buyers sell their $JAIL in the same second.
- Oct 2, 2026, 3:57 PM ET
Emg7… creates $JAIL on pump.fun and buys 0.91 SOL of it.
- Oct 2, 2026, 3:45 PM ET
3iBW… splits 10.49 SOL into five fresh wallets, 2.098 each; four of them pay into exchange deposit addresses within minutes.
- Oct 2, 2026, 3:39 PM ET
7Vnm… sends 11.5 SOL to fresh wallet 3iBW….
The wallets
12 on fileCash-out routes
each fact links to its sourceFrom our dispatch
- Who controls these wallets.
- Whether the exchange withdrawals that funded the $JAIL wallets came from the crew's own deposits minutes earlier.
- How many other launches the same wallets have run.
Related
Mentions in the trenchbook
newest first- CHATTEROct 2, 2026, 8:01 PM ET
- DISPATCHSep 27, 2026, 4:47 PM ET
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