Fueled by claims that the token was backed by Trump\u2019s son, Barron, $DJT soared to a market cap of $400 million.\n<\/p>\n
Onchain sleuth ZachXBT is pointing the finger at \u201cpharma bro\u201d Martin Shkreli claiming Shkreli created the latest Donald Trump memecoin, DJT, and manipulated market participants into believing that the token would be officially endorsed by the former president.<\/p>\n
Following the token\u2019s parabolic price run of 400% in 4 hours, Arkham Intelligence offered<\/a> a $150,000 bounty for whoever could identify the creator of the token. ZachXBT publicly announced his submission to the Arkham bounty.<\/p>\n ZachXBT said Shkreli, a former pharmaceuticals CEO and hedge fund manager who was convicted of financial crimes, messaged him in a \u201cpanic\u201d after he submitted to the bounty, and created an X Spaces where Shkreli \u201cannounced he is the creator of DJT.”<\/p>\n Shkreli hosted a Twitter space where he answered questions about the development of the token, including how the liquidity pools were set up and the token minting process, while maintaining the stance that he does not hold the private keys to the deployer wallet.<\/p>\n ZachXBT\u2019s thread<\/a> went on to point out that one of the admins in DJT\u2019s telegram chat, named CWR, is also an active member within Martin Shkreli\u2019s discord server. However, CWR chose to leave both the telegram and the discord servers last night.<\/p>\n Fueled by claims that the token is being led by Donald Trump\u2019s son, Barron Trump, the $DJT memecoin soared on June 17 to a $400 million market capitalization.<\/p>\n News outlet Pirate Wires broke the news<\/a> that Donald Trump would be launching an official token under the ticker $DJT, led by his son Barron Trump. The claim was corroborated by figures such as Bo Loudon<\/a>, who is a pro-Trump social media influencer.<\/p>\n Joe McCann, the founder of Asymmetric<\/a> and a member of the Solana community, also took to social media in a now-deleted tweet that stated, \u201cThis morning, I heard from 3 sources about Barron\u2019s involvement in a Trump token on Solana. Pirate Wires broke the news.\u201d<\/p>\n The token\u2019s authenticity has been a point of controversy since its launch. DJT was originally minted<\/a> by its deployer on April 22 via an address funded through Kucoin. The deployer then minted the remaining supply on June 13.<\/p>\nRumor Mill<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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