ZachXBT accused Arthur Hayes of using fans as "exit liquidity."
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Specter, the on-chain detective: Arthur Hayes repeatedly promoted tokens before selling or depositing them into exchanges.
According to Specter, a Odaily intelligence firm, Arthur Hayes promoted HYPE, ZEC, and NEAR, which he called "Holy Trinity," predicting HYPE would reach $150 and publishing a Substack article to promote it. Several days later, Hayes sold all three tokens. He then promoted WLD, stating "This shitcoin is going to the moon"; three days later, he announced "I'm out." Afterward, he promoted CADRs, giving a target price of $4; one day later, a linked wallet deposited 1.9 million CADRs into an exchange. In 2024, Hayes promoted ENA, depositing $8.4 million worth of ENA into a CEX approximately one hour later. Specter reports that Arthur Hayes' BitMine has also been accused of operating an insider trading division, price manipulation, and insider trading. Arthur Hayes is currently promoting SYN.
ZachXBT: AscendEX appears to be facing liquidity issues, with user withdrawals delayed by several days to weeks.
According to ChainCatcher, ZachXBT issued a community alert on the X platform, stating that multiple users have reported withdrawal delays of several days to weeks, or even complete inability to process withdrawals, on the centralized exchange AscendEX (formerly Bitmax). ZachXBT, after checking the exchange's known hot wallets using Arkham and TRM, discovered that its reserves lack major market capitalization tokens such as ETH, USDT, and SOL, potentially indicating liquidity issues. AscendEX was founded in 2018 by George Cao and Ariel Ling and suffered a hack by the Lazarus Group in December 2021, resulting in a loss of approximately $78 million.
Arthur Hayes will give a speech at TOKEN2049 in Singapore.
According to Foresight News , BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes will give a speech at TOKEN2049 in Singapore on October 7-8.
Arthur Hayes, inventor of perpetual contracts: The AI bubble is most likely to burst in 2028.
On June 26th, Arthur Hayes stated on the "Bonnie Blockchain" podcast that if he had to guess when the AI bubble would burst, he believes the most likely time would be 2028. His reasoning is simple: most of this round of AI debt will be incurred between 2024 and 2026, while GPUs have an actual lifespan of only two years, yet Wall Street depreciates them over six years. Two and a half years later, will the H100 and Blackwell chips bought at high prices still generate sufficient revenue? If by then, Chinese models will perform just as well, running on Huawei chips, at only one-tenth the price, then the entire economic logic of Western data centers will evaporate instantly.
Arthur Hayes purchased 6.16 million SYN tokens from FlowDesk, worth approximately $2.2 million.
PANews reported on June 29 that, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes bought 6.16 million SYN tokens (US$2.2 million) from FlowDesk.
The Arthur Hayes family office set a price target of $4 for CARDS by the end of summer.
According to Foresight News , Arthur Hayes' family office, Maelstrom, released an in-depth research report on CARDS (Collector Crypt), setting a target price of $4 by the end of summer. The report shows that Collector Crypt is experiencing rapid growth through its tokenized trading card business, with annualized profits of approximately $54 million in May and total annualized revenue expected to reach $2.4 billion in June, corresponding to an annualized profit of approximately $109 million. Collector Crypt's business model revolves around digital gacha (card pack opening). The platform purchases physical trading cards in bulk at a 5%–15% discount and then puts them on the blockchain. Users can immediately resell the cards they obtain from opening packs at approximately 85%–93% of the market price, with the platform earning an overall profit margin of approximately 4.5%. According to GMGN, the current price of CADR's stock is $0.2674, with a market capitalization of approximately $535 million, representing a 24-hour increase of 3.56%.