Shytoshi Kusama, the pseudonymous lead of the Shiba Inu SHIB/USD ecosystem, on Thursday, distanced themselves from the controversial meme coin launched by influencer Haliey Welch of the “Hawk Tuah” fame.
What Occurred: Kusama got here to X to clear the air over the alleged hyperlinks to the HAWK coin, which was pumped and dumped shortly after its launch.
The mysterious character disclosed that they had been approached by Welch’s staff months in the past to advertise the coin, however they declined the provide.
Nonetheless, Kusama mentioned they had been high-quality with the venture airdropping thousands and thousands of their tokens to the SHIB group.
“As a result of Shib is decentralized, the submit together with Shib was going out regardless. So okay, you need to airdrop tokens; it gained’t be the primary or final, and we now have strategies in place to just accept these correctly (Leash, and so on.) like we now have achieved prior to now,” Kusama added.
Even so, Kusama denied any partnership or settlement with the staff right now.
The Shiba Inu lead mentioned that whereas they had been getting ready on their finish for the airdrop, Welch’s staff went forward with the “immediate launch.”
“Pump and apparent dumping; even denial of doing so! Which imho is shameful and identical to like 90% of the crap on Solana. Do higher,” Kusama slammed the creators.
They deemed the meme coin as “trash” and suggested the group to avoid the “horrible” launch.
The staff behind the HAWK token didn’t instantly reply to Benzinga’s request for touch upon the claims by Kusama.
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Why It Issues: The cryptocurrency group was surprised by the sudden crash within the meme coin’s market worth after the preliminary pump, with many accusing Welch of defrauding them by insider buying and selling.
Welch has denied the allegations, saying that no free token was given to anybody from the staff or influencers.
Fingers additionally began to level towards the Shiba Inu ecosystem, with a person named Lola accusing the staff behind the official X account of selling the pump-and-dump coin.
Worth Motion: As of this writing, the Solana SOL/USD-based coin was down 32.59% within the final 24 hours whereas its market capitalization plummeted to $27 million from $425 million instantly after launch, in accordance to Dexscreener knowledge.
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