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ARIAAriaAI · BNB ChainLatest investigation
ARIA: tokens from the project's own wallets hit an exchange on crash day
- The official allocation table matches the chain exactly: the community airdrop, team, ecosystem fund and investor allocations all came from one distribution wallet, and every monthly community and ecosystem release went to the project's own hub wallet
- At 17:48 on 14 April, mid-crash, tokens the hub wallet had sent out in March passed through two layers of fresh addresses and reached Gate in the same second, 37.05 million in total, close in time and size to the sell-off flagged by on-chain analyst EmberCN
- Between 12:14 and 12:31 on 14 October, the 680 million tokens left in the team, investor, community, ecosystem and hub wallets all moved into five multisigs created that day; gas for all five came from Gate withdrawals in the same minute
How we investigate
Trace the holders
List the top holders and trace, one by one, where their tokens and gas came from, to see which wallets belong to the same entity.
Follow the flows
Track released and unlocked tokens, and check whether they moved to exchanges around price moves.
Match the market
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003 · 2026.10.18 · BNB ChainARIA: tokens from the project's own wallets hit an exchange on crash dayFund. 2.3PoorRisk 9HighData as of 18 Oct 2026, 16:03 UK time
001 · 2026.10.15 · BNB ChainAGT: one entity controls the supply, and the doubling happened on perpetualsUpdated · price doubled again early on 17 OctoberFund. 2.7PoorRisk 9HighData as of 15 Oct 2026, 22:00 UK timeLayer 2
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