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A comment by Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao, aka CZ, sent the 4 meme coin skyrocketing, helping one investor turn a $3k trade into $2 million in just hours.
Zhao’s tweet on X highlighted a hacker who dumped his 4 tokens for a $4,000 gain, calling it the “funniest comeback by the community” after the meme coin surged nearly 20,000% in the past week
“Interestingly, after the hacker dumped ALL his tokens for a $4k gain, the community took over and bought the meme coin higher, as a mock to the hacker,” CZ said in his X <a href="https://x.com/cz_binance/status/1973319288246423767" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">post</a>.&nbsp;
Following CZ’s post, the 4 price surged to an all-time high of $0.2 earlier today before falling back. It’s now up 12% in the past 24 hours to trade at $0.1702 as of 4:16 a.m. EST, according to <a href="https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/4-meme/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">CoinMarketCap</a>.
<img src="https://insidebitcoins.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Screenshot-2025-10-06-104006-300x173.png" alt="4 meme coin price" width="827" height="477">
4 meme coin price (Source: <a href="https://coinstats.app/coins/4-2/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Coinstats</a>)
Trading volume for the meme coin topped $79 million in the past 24 hours.&nbsp;
<h2 id="span-style-font-weight-400-trader-makes-2-million-on-4-bet-span">Trader Makes $2 Million On 4 Bet</h2>
Among those who bought the token when it collapsed was a trader identified by the wallet address “0x872.” The wallet was one of the earlier buyers of the token, according to on-chain analytics firm Lookonchain.
In an X post, the firm said that the trader’s initial $3,000 worth of BNB had grown to $2 million, marking a roughly 650x return on investment.&nbsp;
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 This trader turned $3K into $2M, a 652x return!
 Trader 0x872a spent 3 <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%24BNB&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">$BNB</a>($3,060) to buy 16.86M $4, then sold 5.12M $4 for 110 <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%24BNB&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">$BNB</a>($118.7K), with 11.75M $4 ($1.88M) left.
 Total profit: ~$2M! 🚀
 Address: 0x872a4f6aa517908fe77978f21a9f5c8c9ab0e6b8 <a href="https://t.co/Er58opiing" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">pic.twitter.com/Er58opiing</a>
 — Lookonchain (@lookonchain) <a href="https://twitter.com/lookonchain/status/1974407155202855047?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">October 4, 2025</a>
</blockquote>

Lookonchain says that the trader has sold 5.12 million 4 tokens for 110 BNB, or $118.7K. The trader still holds 11.75 million 4 tokens worth $1.88 million, and the person’s portfolio currently has more than 98% exposure to the meme coin as well.
That trader was not the only person to buy up 4 tokens after the hacker dumped the meme coin. Some of the industry’s most successful crypto traders in terms of returns also purchased the meme coin, according to Nansen data.&nbsp;
The 4 meme coin was also the third-most-bought token in the past 24 hours by “smart money” traders, after these&nbsp; traders acquired nearly $100K worth of tokens, the <a href="https://app.nansen.ai/smart-money?chains=bnb&amp;tab=tokens" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Nansen data</a> shows.&nbsp;
Another unknown wallet had purchased the 4 meme coin minutes before CZ’s post as well, and achieved $1.5 million in profit just hours after the trade, according to a Wednesday X <a href="https://x.com/bubblemaps/status/1973343326066860265" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">post</a> by Bubblemaps.&nbsp;
<h2 id="4-token-created-in-aftermath-of-bnb-chain-x-account-hack">4 Token Created In Aftermath Of BNB Chain X Account Hack</h2>
The 4 token was created in the aftermath of a recent BNB Chain X account hack. Once compromised, the account was used to share phishing links, resulting in $8K stolen across all chains, BNB Chain <a href="https://x.com/BNBCHAIN/status/1973303556167065873" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">said</a> in an update regarding the security incident.&nbsp;
The biggest victim of the attack was an investor who lost $6.5K. After injecting $17.8K into the 4 meme coin token, the trader then exited “100% of his meme tokens for $22K,” the account added.&nbsp;
It did not take long for the crypto community to mock the attacker by boosting the token’s price after he excited his position.
<h2 id="span-style-font-weight-400-traders-make-big-money-on-meme-coins-span">Traders Make Big Money On Meme Coins</h2>
The recent 650-fold gain for the 4 token trader is not the first time a trader has struck it big on a meme coin. While lighthearted in nature, highly-volatile meme coins have led to life changing gains for traders over the years. This is especially true for meme coins that gain strong community backing.
Another recent example of a meme coin trader achieving meteoric gains happened in March, when a trader turned a $2,000 investment into as much as $43 million by buying the now-popular frog-themed token Pepe (PEPE).
However, that trader opted to hold onto PEPE even as the meme coin suffered a 74% decline from its all-time high. This saw the trader’s unrealized profits shrink from $43 million to $10 million when the trader sold.
Over the past 24 hours, the collective capitalization of meme coins dropped over 2% to around $73.98 billion, according to <a href="https://coinmarketcap.com/view/memes/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">CoinMarketC</a><a href="https://coinmarketcap.com/view/memes/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">ap</a> data.&nbsp;
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CZ Post Sends 4 Meme Coin Soaring As Trader Turns $3K Into $2M

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