Fake account reveals the truth? MELANIA and LIBRA's manipulative hands exposed

Author: Azuma, Odaily Planet Daily

This morning, while the market's attention was almost entirely consumed by a sharp decline, two seemingly ordinary yet very peculiar X hacking incidents occurred.

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

Odaily Note: Meteora's statement about the hacking, Ben Chow's has been deleted.

Now, let’s summarize what happened this morning.

Cause: Ben Chow's Personal Account Speaks Out

First, at 8:29 this morning, Ben Chow published a statement on his personal account regarding the MELANIA, LIBRA, and TRUMP incidents.

In the statement, he pointed out that Dhirk and Vlad, co-founders of DefiTuna who previously exposed the manipulative practices of the Meteora-affiliated platform M3M3, are one of the parties behind the MELANIA and other tokens.

Ben Chow even posted some addresses and chats as evidence, stating that Dhirk and Vlad had extracted at least $30 million from these manipulative activities.

This is my official statement regarding the MELANIA, LIBRA, and TRUMP incidents:

As a long-time builder in Solana, my reason for leaving is that I felt overly trusting of the parasitic nature of the meme token market.

Together with the LP legion (Note: a common term used by the Meteora community for LPs), we built a decentralized AMM protocol that was loved by users and accessible to anyone. The co-founder of DefiTuna and his associate Kelsier abused Meteora and our community for personal gain.

I am disgusted by the actions of DefiTuna co-founders Dhirk and Vlad, who attempted to expose me as a whistleblower while they have been actively scheming around MELANIA, MATES, and more tokens to maximize their profits.

How can you sit in a room with a group of insiders to short ENRON and then weeks later decide to try to trap the founder of an unlicensed protocol instead of exposing all these insiders?

Look at their addresses; they have shorted and extracted at least $30 million from MELANIA, MATES, and other projects.

7Wk1vTrp2axUtlg3E2xvlbBxvRXTEgYYRnSkHN1xdMKA
7uDdwzV3jynMRqfu1p1kfEc9prTM3j48fEKmTxuLKnVR
AcxCYwG1jXUP4kEuNFdSzRKVGoV5JHYYvMoghqMNH2
CGzGaG3K6pFEq1k99jsbwLgfWkRi6GnkPpScakG2RAHcGW

They are all serial scammers.

Odaily Note: Screenshot of Ben Chow's tweet.

Odaily Note: Chat records posted by Ben Chow (all community screenshots, so slightly blurry), with participants including DefiTuna co-founder Vlad, Kelsier CEO Hayden Davis, and another unknown individual, Gideon Davis.

Progress: Meteora Account Retweets Comments

Shortly after Ben Chow's personal account spoke out (around 8:42), Meteora's official account retweeted with comments, apologizing for the unfair practices during the MELANIA token issuance process and stating that "they still hold 30% of MELANIA tokens and are preparing to dump."

Important information about MELANIA:

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

Unfortunately, they abused Meteora and its technology to maximize their personal gains, extracting unfair profits from the MELANIA token.

We understand that they currently still hold about 30% of the total supply, and insiders have suggested that they plan to sell on the market soon.

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

Odaily Note: Screenshot of Meteora's retweet comment.

Twist: Both Quickly Delete Tweets

However, Ben Chow and Meteora's "statements" were only publicly available for a very short time before being quickly deleted. Subsequently, both Ben Chow and Meteora "refuted" the claims, stating that their accounts had been hacked… leading to the ordinary stolen account statement this morning.

Numerous Doubts

Clearly, this incident raises multiple questions.

• First, is it more likely that hackers simultaneously breached both Ben Chow and Meteora's accounts? Or is it more likely that the now-departed Ben Chow still retains access to the Meteora account?

• Second, assuming that hackers did steal Ben Chow and Meteora's accounts, why not send a phishing link from an economic standpoint instead of going through the trouble of a lengthy statement?

• Third, assuming there really are hackers? Where did they obtain those private chat records and the addresses of the relevant individuals?

• From another angle, if the person behind the posts from both accounts is indeed the now-departed Ben Chow, who quickly deleted the tweets and claimed they were hacked to control the narrative?

• From the content of the statements, people previously viewed DefiTuna, which exposed the manipulative practices of M3M3, as heroes, but how do we explain their deep involvement in the chat records? Is it true that "they still hold 30% of MELANIA waiting to dump"?

All these questions arose with Ben Chow and Meteora's "sudden statements," but were lost with the "account control" narrative, leaving no opportunity for answers.

Looking back at the entire incident, Ben Chow's "statement" seems to carry a sense of resentment at being made a scapegoat… What roles do DefiTuna, Kelsier, Meteora, and the underlying Jupiter play in this botched manipulation incident? Who is the villain, who is innocent? Or is everyone backstage colluding?