Pump Enjoyable co-founder Dylan Kerler has been linked to quite a lot of shitcoin rugpulls that extracted $75,000 from unsuspecting traders when he was simply 16.
WIRED reportedly found {that a} developer utilizing Dylan Kerler’s identify launched eight cash in 2017. Two of those, eBitcoinCash and EthereumCash, reportedly made the developer $75,000 in Ether (ETH), price $400,000 right now.
The developer promoted these two cash within the BitcoinTalk discussion board, making quite a few guarantees and producing sufficient curiosity to boost EthereumCash’s worth to £1.3 million.
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Nonetheless, WIRED experiences that they started promoting their EthereumCash holdings in secret, which coincided with an 88% drop in worth. They used EtherDelta to promote, making 240 ETH, earlier than dividing it throughout varied wallets on centralized exchanges.
Certik’s chief safety scientist stated, “We strongly suspect that [EthereumCash] was used by the developer for a rug pull.”
How WIRED linked Dylan Kerler to Dylan Kerler
Each cash have been promoted by one particular person, utilizing the accounts DOMAINBROKER and ninjagod.
In a single occasion, DOMAINBROKER shared a private electronic mail deal with with the identify Dylan Kerler, whereas ninjagod launched a thread that referred to Kerler because the developer of EthereumCash.
This developer additionally claimed in a Telegram group that they’re based mostly within the UK metropolis of Brighton. Pump Enjoyable’s co-founder can be listed on the electoral information as having an deal with within the space, and a Pump Enjoyable entity makes use of this deal with in its company filings.
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A coin known as Equis that was promoted by ninjagod on BitcoinTalk additionally shares similar code to EthereumCash and was featured on a YouTube account utilizing Dylan Kerlar’s identify.
Neither Pump Enjoyable nor Kerler responded to WIRED’s request for remark. Protos has reached out to Alon Cohen, Pump Enjoyable’s co-founder, for remark and can replace this text if we hear something again.
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