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 Analysis of token movements from Redditor moderators' wallets suggests at least three moderators dumped thousands of dollars worth of Moon tokens just minutes before the actual announcement.
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 Popular social network platform Reddit announced the wind-down of its <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="blockchain" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/blockchain.html">blockchain</a>-based community points <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="program" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/program.html">program</a> on Oct. 17 citing scalability issues. The announcement created controversy in the crypto community with many calling it a rug-pull as the price of the native <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="token" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/token.html">token</a> on different subreddits tanked after the announcements.&nbsp;
 Each subreddit had its own native <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="token" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/token.html">token</a>. For example, the Moons (MOON) <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="token" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/token.html">token</a> was the native crypto asset of the r/CryptoCurrency board, while Bricks (BRICK) was for the r/FortNiteBR subreddit. Users could spend these points on badges and exclusive items for their avatars.
 At the time of the announcement the moderators of most of the subreddits involved with the community points program claimed to be unaware of the decision. However, this is now being called into question as new on-chain data suggest at least a couple of moderators holding Moon tokens may have been linked to three wallets that dumped millions of the tokens shortly before the actual announcement.
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 On-chain analysts such as Pledditor were the first to draw attention to the actions of a subreddit moderator with the pseudonym Mcgillby. On-chain data reveals that this moderator transferred more than 100,000 Moons over two different transactions on the Arbitrum Nova blockchain, turning them into more than $23,000 in ETH. The user subsequently deleted all earlier Reddit posts.
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 .@Reddit admins told /r/CryptoCurrency moderators beforehand, and 3 moderators sold $MOON <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="token" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/token.html">token</a>s on insider information$MOON price dropped -22% minutes before the announcement was posted Here is a list of Reddit moderators acting on inside information BEFORE the announcement: pic.twitter.com/xAh75hOVEa— Pledditor (@Pledditor) October 18, 2023
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 In another incident, just 17 minutes before Reddit's open statement, "rider_of_the_storm," a different moderator, allegedly shifted 345,422 Moons, worth over $69,000 at the time, to an exchange address. The Reddit account in question has since been deactivated. According to Lookonchain, on-chain data showed that at least three of the administrators overseeing the cryptocurrency subreddit liquidated tokens some 20 to 30 minutes before the announcement went public.
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 1/ Three @CCMOD_ moderators dumped $MOON in advance via #inside information from @Reddit admins. pic.twitter.com/ucrPkh6siX— Lookonchain (@lookonchain) October 19, 2023
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 A cumulative statement from the Reddit moderators clarified that they received the notice about the termination of the community points program an hour earlier, suggesting at least three moderators may have used the prior information to dump their token holdings.
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