Recently, a fairly prominent individual within the PEPE community, known as @Pauly0x with over 152.8 thousand followers on the X platform, brought forth significant information. He revealed the identity of the creator behind the memecoin project Pepe (PEPE).
According to @Pauly0x, the individual responsible for crafting the memecoin PEPE is Zachary Testa, and he goes by the Twitter handle @degenharambe. Zachary Testa was born in 1997 and graduated from Arizona State University with a degree in marketing in 2018. Notably, Zachary Testa has a history of legal violations in various areas.
Zachary Testa possesses several cryptocurrency wallet addresses, including:
– 0x8d2a5bdfc692ad912af77016fc75b49856c369f1
– 0xea40b0f6BA2aD77fF2FedAe98Ca67EaefCBCBE4A (badussy.eth)
– 0x9c46a675350ce1f7ca616bf4fb4e0a542295e302
– 0x40962b448aa899196906646340cb4eb61a8d49b4
Apart from Zachary Testa, the PEPE team also includes three other individuals with the following Telegram handles:
– @billyoptions (account deleted)
– @zerozevia (account deleted)
– @ekim222 (account deleted)
The disclosure of information about the PEPE team has evoked a diverse range of reactions within the community. Numerous opinions voiced opposition, suggesting that @Pauly0x might have unlawfully leaked personal information or generated unwarranted attention.
Nevertheless, there’s a possibility that @Pauly0x felt pressured when the team’s identity was exposed. This is due to his criticism of the PEPE team for not sharing any part of the token with the creator of the Pepe the Frog meme (the inspiration behind PEPE), named Matt Furie. Notably, @Pauly0x revealed that he himself facilitated the connection between the PEPE team and the Binance exchange, enabling PEPE to potentially be listed on the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange.
Additionally, another factor contributed to @Pauly0x’s actions. This involves the information that over 16 trillion PEPE tokens (approximately 3.8% of the total supply) were transferred by the project team from multisig wallets to exchanges such as Binance, KuCoin, and Bybit. This has left many within the community feeling bewildered. Furthermore, the multisig wallet for Pepe reduced the required number of signatures from 5 out of 8 to 2 out of 8.
In summary, these unconventional developments have left the cryptocurrency community perplexed. Many have put forward the hypothesis that the PEPE team might be preparing to sell off tokens, potentially leading to a “rug pull” scenario.