An unknown trader made nearly half a million worth of profit on a recently launched memecoin just before the token lost half of its value, sparking insider trading allegations after the recent wave of memecoin meltdowns.
A savvy trader made an over 1,500-fold return on his initial investment, turning it into over $482,000 in less than 24 hours on the Bubb (BUBB) memecoin.
Source: Lookonchain
“Turned $304 into $482K on $BUBB—a 1,586x return! This trader spent only $304 to buy 43.94M $BUBB and sold 28.9M $BUBB for $122K, leaving 15.64M $BUBB($360K),” wrote Lookonchain in a March 21 X post.
The profitable trade occurred shortly before the token lost over 50% of its value, from a peak that rose to a peak $43.7 million market capitalization on March 21 at 10:00 p.m. UTC, to the current $22.6 million, Dexscreener data