Pepe (PEPE), one of the most popular meme coins of the last period, was shaken by suspicious movements in contract addresses. These movements, which were detected by the community, raised various allegations and some suspect a rug pull.
Pepe has been one of the most hyped meme coins lately. Some early traders made over 1,000x gains trading the meme coins. However, now, there has been panic amongst the community members.
Community Grows Suspicious as Pepe Makes a Bad Security Choice
Community members have recently alleged that PEPE has changed the threshold of the multisignature wallet to two signatures from five. The threshold is the minimum signatures required to authorize a transaction in the wallet.
Moreover, according to the on-chain sleuth ZachXBT, the meme coin developers have sent nearly $15 million worth of tokens to an externally owned account (EOA). The EOA then sent the funds to exchanges as follows:
- $6.5M of PEPE to Binance
- $8.2M of PEPE to OKX
- $434k of PEPE to Bybit
- $389K of PEPE to another address
This was described as dangerous, and warnings were issued for the popular meme coin. For now, there is no official statement from the Pepe team.
The PEPE price, on the other hand, has declined by more than 20% in the past 24 hours. The increasing trading volume drives the speculation that investors are panic selling due to the multisig threshold fiasco. However, there is no concrete sharing or explanation at this stage.
Fears of Rug Pull
Meme coins have a reputation of conducting rug pulls after driving up hype. Also in Pepe’s case, the community is making allegations of a rug pull after monitoring recent transactions.
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Lately there have been frequent incidents of rug pulls. Especially on the new Layer 2 project, Coinbase Base. On Friday, Magnate Finance, a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol on Base conducted a $6.5 million rug pull. Previously on Aug. 16, SwirlLend’s Total Value Locked (TV) dropped to almost zero after the team scammed users.
And the $23 million BALD meme coin rug pull happened on the Base network.
As the community and on-chain analyst goes suspicious about Pepe meme coin, the investors should be cautious about their investment decisions. Pepe meme coin may invite greater volatility due to the allegations.
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