@unvint said reports claim Kimchi was paid $6M by Pumpfun to join it, that he holds 75% of the solana:CSocnzcRpgSCr1naKcNTieWZUxb6rABe45j844m7pump supply, and made over $29M in profit in 12 hours
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Microtrend / Rank 04 / Week of Oct 18 – Oct 24
Kimchi's "$40M on $TRUMP" claim gets fact-checked down to $6.2M as his Pumpfun-funded coin mints millions in hours
Peak / day25tracked accounts
Peak dayWedOct 21 · busiest day in the panel
Rest of X / peak day—not measured outside the panel
Cited claims81 dropped by automated checks
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Attention
Who was talking, day by day
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What happened
On 2026-10-21 @unvint said reports claim Kimchi was paid $6M by Pumpfun to join it, that he holds 75% of the solana:CSocnzcRpgSCr1naKcNTieWZUxb6rABe45j844m7pump supply, and made over $29M in profit in 12 hours, while the $40M Trump Coin figure has no on-chain proof. Also on 2026-10-21, @scratcherrrr and @itscoinnoisseur said the $40M figure has never been proven, and @pavelthedev quoted Bubblemaps saying it traced his wallets and found actual profits well short of $40M; on 2026-10-23 @scratcherrrr replayed 90 TRUMP swaps and put the real profit at $6,248,903, noting that selling his entire 418,919 TRUMP peak at $73 would only have been $30.6M. @degenhustla put the real market cap of $Kimchi at $8M versus $40M for $ANSEM, and @theraintjeets joked about seeing $40m in a Kimchi Pumpfun wallet; on 2026-10-23 @pavelthedev framed the number itself as the asset, since stories keep the "$40M on $TRUMP" line consistent while everything else changes.
Why it matters
It is a clean case study in how a number nobody could verify became the collateral for an entire influencer persona and the coin built on top of it, with Bubblemaps-style on-chain replay as the counterweight. The team can cover it as narrative-vs-ledger rather than price.
Observed reaction
Mocking and skeptical: accounts are treating the $40M as a story that got repeated rather than a trade, with the $6.2M replay and the $8M $Kimchi market cap cited as the punchline; no one is bullish on the figure itself.
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Where it started and who carried it
- First seen
- Oct 18, 10:45 UTC by @astaonx_
- Accounts
- 19 tracked · 25 elsewhere on X
- Communities
- memecoins solana (9), general ct (2), nft culture (2), prediction mkts (2)
- Key accounts
- @pumpfuneco, @_bolivian, @adriansanpei, @encigr, @astaonx_
Explainability
Evidence register
@unvint said people claim Kimchi made $40M from Trump Coin but there is no on-chain proof
[1]@scratcherrrr put the real profit at $6,248,903 and said selling all 418,919 TRUMP at the $73 top would be $30.6M
[1]@itscoinnoisseur said there is still zero proof Kimchi made $40m on TRUMP
[1]@pavelthedev quoted Bubblemaps saying Kimchi did not make $40M on $TRUMP and that it traced his wallets to find his actual profits
[1]@degenhustla said the real market cap of $Kimchi is $8M and the real market cap of $ANSEM is $40M
[1]@theraintjeets joked about seeing $40m in Kimchi's pumpfun wallet
[1]@pavelthedev said nobody needed to prove the $40M and that stories keep "$40M on $TRUMP" in them while everything else is argued about, quoting a post claiming Kimchi was SIM swapped
[1]Angles
- Side-by-side: the $40M claim, the 90-swap replay ending at $6,248,903, and the $30.6M ceiling even selling the 418,919-TRUMP peak at $73
- Ladder of numbers in play this week: $6M Pumpfun report, $29M claimed in 12 hours, 75% supply held, $8M $Kimchi market cap vs $40M $ANSEM
- How a repeated unverified number, not a trade, became the marketing asset for a memecoin
Formats in use
- quote-tweet chains
- on-chain wallet replay breakdown
- screenshot of wallet/profile
- one-line ratio jokes
- caplog-style number correction
Risks
- The $6M Pumpfun payment and the $29M/75%-supply figures come from posts, not verified sources; label as reported/unverified
- SIM-swap claim about Kimchi appears only via a quote of another account, unverified
- Avoid implying the $40M is definitively fraud; state that no on-chain proof has been shown
- Possible paid or coordinated promotion of the associated memecoin in the quoted posts
- No price predictions or trading advice
Observed content
Most-engaged posts
A bet on $ORE is one on a revenue-generating SoV protocol which survived a 95% collapse in both earnings and token price and has now stabilized and is recovering. ORE generates over $40m in annualized token holder revenue while trading at roughly $60m FDV. The ⛏️are calling.Open on X →
Jeff & Labs $HYPE claims + S3 I’ve always been of the view that an S3 airdrop would be much smaller, say 1-3%, as opposed to a large tranche. The fact Jeff/Labs opted to wait for a buyer to come along before unloading a larger tranche OTC is an indication to me that $HYPE willOpen on X →
Kimchi is the real example you can earn more money if you have money. People are saying he made $40M from Trump Coin, but I still don't see any on-chain proof. Since he posts luxury things, people believe it's true. Today, reports say he got paid $6M by Pumpfun just to join it.Open on X →
Today FC Bayern München vs. Arsenal FC ❌ Today Rjw1 vs. Takon88 ✅ on Polymarket Two top Polymarket traders are trading againest each other => Rjw1 Is a top trader who trader over $40m in trading volume right now he is in the loss because i saw one time he had a over millionOpen on X →
KIMCHI DIDN'T MAKE $40M ON $TRUMP everyone repeats it since 2025. https://t.co/SXhfeHdeI4 even showed his profile at $42,571,858 this week so I took the wallet @bubblemaps linked to him and replayed every TRUMP coin trade 90 swaps first fill at $0.30 held 418,919 TRUMP at theOpen on X →
Just for the record. The real Mcap of $Kimchi is: $8M The real Mcap of $ANSEM is: $40M They will never be able to sell the millions of dollars worth of tokens they hold in their wallets. https://t.co/mpdOZyBReCOpen on X →
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