WINT insider trading case in the Virtuals trenches
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Market since$WINT−99.9%since this pieceHow it played out ↓Summarizes Slappjakke's onchain evidence of insiders buying WINT before an extended vesting announcement, staking to cut liquid supply to about 10%, then unstaking after a 5x. Lists wallets with scheduled unlocks worth about $2.9M over 14 days.
Key claims
Insiders bought about $25k of WINT one hour before the vesting announcement
Only about 10% of supply was liquid, with a 20x price rise in three weeks
About $2.9M in tokens unlock over the next 14 days
Virgen god @Slappjakke is doing the good work, exposing insider trading in the @virtuals_io trenches.
TL;DR on the $WINT case ↓
- Insiders purchased ~$25k of $WINT tokens just one hour before announcing an extended vesting schedule, causing a quick rise from a $700k to $1.3M market cap.
- Immediately after the announcement, insiders staked their tokens, significantly reducing circulating supply (50% vested, 40% staked, leaving only ~10% liquid), which contributed to a 20x price increase within only three weeks.
- Recently, insiders began early unstaking after the token did 5x, leading to the unlock of approx. $2.9M worth of tokens over the next 14 days.
- Wallet 0x95da...b51e, which bought tokens worth $16k based on apparent insider info (now valued around $250k), has a major unstaking scheduled in 3 days, strongly suggesting an imminent sell-off.
- Wallet 0xb714...58ad, another insider, bought tokens just before announcement, unlocking ~$200k in 7 days, likely planning a sell-off.
- Wallet 0xc929...7c03, purchased ~4.5% of supply on launch day for ~$20k, now worth ~$720k, unlocking $700k in 6 days. Not necessarily malicious but will impact the market significantly.
Check the thread below for all details! ↓
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No laws about insider trading in the Virtuals trenches but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't call out bad actors if insiders buy $WINT just before announcing extended vesting, and unstake $450k worth of tokens there's a big chance they are planning to dump 💀 t.co/oCeS0
No laws about insider trading in the Virtuals trenches but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't call out bad actors if insiders buy $WINT just before announcing extended vesting, and unstake $450k worth of tokens there's a big chance they are planning to dump 💀 t.co/oCeS0
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