DeFiTuna exposes Kelsier for manipulating multiple projects including MELANIA, harvesting over 200 million dollars
ChainCatcher news, DefiTuna founder Dhirk announced via X platform that he has refunded $30,000 and severed ties with investor Kelsier due to Kelsier's alleged involvement in market manipulation.Dhirk stated: "Everyone internally knows there is a huge network of influencers who, with the support of Ben's leadership team, have made millions from the Meteora community."According to SolanaFloor, the DefiTuna founder claimed that Kelsier was involved in a well-orchestrated scheme to extract large amounts of funds from the meme coin launchpad platform M3M3. M3M3 was initially packaged as an independent platform but was actually controlled by Meteora co-founder Ben; projects launching on M3M3 were required to allocate token shares to Kelsier's team; DefiTuna co-founder Vlad was passively involved, mistakenly believing the collaboration was legitimate. It is estimated that the Kelsier team has harvested over $200 million in user funds through projects like AIAI, MATES, ENRON, MELANIA, and LIBRA.