Fake stolen account speaks the truth? MELANIA, LIBRA's manipulation black hand exposed

Original | Odaily Planet Daily (@OdailyChina)

Author | Azuma (@azuma_eth)

This morning, while the market's attention was almost completely drawn away by the violent plunge, two seemingly ordinary but very suspicious X account theft incidents occurred.

Meteora and its former founder Ben Chow, who resigned due to the LIBRA insider scandal, both posted statements, indicating that the official X account of Meteora and Ben Chow's personal X account were hacked (Ben Chow's hacked statement has been deleted). However, according to screenshots from the community, these two incidents do not seem as simple as they appear.

Odaily Note: Meteora's X theft statement, Ben Chow's has been deleted.

Next, Odaily Planet Daily will sort out what happened this morning.

Cause: Ben Chow Personal Account Speaks Out

First, at 8:29 this morning, Ben Chow posted a statement about the MELANIA, LIBRA, TRUMP incident on his personal account.

The article directly points out that DefiTuna co-founders Dhirk and Vlad, who exposed the manipulation behind the MELANIA token, are one of the masterminds behind the M 3 M 3 platform, which was exposed for market manipulation involving 2 billion USD, including LIBRA, MELANIA, and other tokens.

Ben Chow even posted some addresses, chat logs as evidence, and stated that Dhirk, Vlad, and others extracted at least 30 million USD from these manipulation activities.

This is my official statement on the MELANIA, LIBRA, and TRUMP events:

As a long-term Solana builder, the reason I quit was that I trusted the parasitic nature of the Meme token market too much.

Along with the LP legions (Note: Meteora community's common term for LP), we have built a decentralized AMM protocol that is most loved by users, and can be used by anyone. DefiTuna's co-founder and its affiliates Kelsier have abused Meteora and our community for personal gain.

I am disgusted by DefiTuna co-founders Dhirk and Vlad attempting to blow the whistle on my behavior. In fact, they have been actively scheming around MELANIA, MATES, and more tokens to maximize profits.

How can you sit in a room with a group of insiders and snipe ENRON together, and then decide a few weeks later to try to lure a founder of an unauthorized protocol instead of reporting all these insiders?

Look at their addresses, they have at least sniped and extracted 30 million dollars in MELANIA, MATES, and other projects.

7Wk1vTrp2axUtlg3E2xvlbBxvRXTEgYYRnSkHN1xdMKA
7uDdwzV3jynMRqfu1p1kfEc9prTM3j48fEKmTxuLKnVR
AcxCYwG1jXUP4kEuNFdSzRKVGoV5JHYYvMoghqMNH2
CGzGaG3K6pFEq1k99jsbwLgfWkRi6GnkPpScakG2RAHcGW

They are all serial scammers.

Odaily Note: Screenshot of Ben Chow's tweet.

Odaily note: The chat records posted by Ben Chow (all are community screenshots, so slightly blurry), the conversation includes DefiTuna co-founder Vlad, Kelsier CEO Hayden Davis, and another unknown person Gideon Davis.

Progress: Meteora account retweeted comments

Shortly after Ben Chow's personal account spoke out (around 8:42), Meteora's official account forwarded and commented on it, apologizing for the unfair behavior during the issuance of the MELANIA token and stating 'they still hold 30% of the MELANIA tokens and are ready to sell them off'.

Important information about MELANIA:

We, the Meteora team, sincerely apologize to the community for the recent actions of Hayden (CEO Kelsier) and his team.

Unfortunately, they have abused Meteora and its technology to maximize their personal interests, extracting unfair benefits from the MELANIA token.

We have learned that they currently still hold about 30% of the total supply, and insiders suggest they plan to sell on the market shortly.

We deeply regret this situation and are tirelessly working to ensure it does not happen again. Your trust is crucial to us, and we are committed to restoring everything to normalcy.

Odaily Note: Retweet screenshots of Meteora's comments.

Turning Point: Both Deleted and Recommended

However, Ben Chow and Meteora's 'voice' was only publicly available for a very short time before being quickly deleted, and then both Ben Chow and Meteora 'denied rumors' that their accounts were hacked... Thus, this morning's ordinary theft statement came about.

Numerous Doubts

Obviously, this incident reveals doubts from multiple perspectives.

• First of all, is it more likely that hackers have breached both Ben Chow and Meteora accounts at the same time? Or is it more likely that former employee Ben Chow still retains access to the Meteora account?
• Second, assuming that a hacker really stole Ben Chow and Meteora's accounts, why not send a phishing link from an economic perspective, but go to such lengths to write a long article?
• Secondly, assuming there really is a hacker? Where did he get those private chat records and related individuals' addresses from?
• On the other hand, if the person behind the two accounts is indeed the now-departed Ben Chow, who quickly deleted the tweets and claimed to be hacked, who took control of public opinion as soon as possible?
• From the perspective of the content of the statement, previously people regarded DefiTuna, who exposed the insider trading of M3M3, as a hero. However, what does their deep involvement in the chat records explain? Is the so-called "they still hold 30% of MELANIA to be smashed" true?

All these doubts were raised with the sudden voice of Ben Chow and Meteora, but the opportunity to get answers was lost with the account being accused.

Looking back on the whole incident, there seems to be a sense of resentment in Ben Chow's 'statement' that is being used as a scapegoat...What roles do DefiTuna, Kelsier, Meteora, and Jupiter behind them play in this botched manipulation incident? Who is doing wrong, who is innocent? Or is everyone working together behind the scenes?