The crypto world was recently rocked by the remarkable launch of the SatoshiVM SAVM token on January 18th. Immediately after the offering, SAVM's market capitalization skyrocketed, reaching a peak of a whopping $90 million. That was an increase of several thousand percent in just a few hours, which is of course crazy in itself. But the story doesn't end there, as a dark cloud has formed over the project and its rapid rise.
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Alleged market manipulation SAVM
The SAVM controversy actually arose quickly. Allegations of market manipulation have been made. Data from Bubblemaps showed that up to 15% of the token’s total supply was sent to a small number of crypto influencer wallets. These influencers then sold the tokens immediately after receiving them.
Related to @satoshiVM public tokenomics, 15% of the supply was sent to “contributors” (or influencers).
Most of them were sold immediately after receiving the tokens. pic.twitter.com/fTUHaZLkP7
— Bubblemaps (@bubblemaps) January 19, 2024
Notably, some prominent investors involved in SatoshiVM's private sale quickly took profits on their positions. While many of them initially announced to their followers on social media that SAVM would be the new hype.
The team behind SatoshiVM itself is also said to have sold significant amounts of tokens within 48 hours. According to rug.ai, the team would have walked away with a profit of $4.7 million. Influencers have also managed to score some nice loot. Together they earned $4.8 million from the SAVM launch. These are all signals of a common pump-and-dump or back-pull operation.
The $SAVM The launch was the largest launch of 2024. We analyzed 13.8k holders to calculate the PnL of:
Team +$4.71M
Influencer +$4.83M
Snipers + $15.2 millionWe leave below $SAVM & his biggest winners 🧵 pic.twitter.com/q4IFl3FvQG
– rug.ai (@rug_ai) January 22, 2024
Answer from SatoshiVM
To provide clarity and reassure the community, the SatoshiVM team announced an “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) session on Reddit. There has been no further response from the team.
In any case, it is clear that the controversy is not going away any time soon. All signals point to a pump and dump; A project with which the founders and insiders want to earn as much money as possible in a short period of time on the backs of investors. However, that doesn't mean that all investors lost money. This is how a clever trader managed to capitalize on the hype and become a millionaire in one fell swoop, even though he is of course in the minority in this case.
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