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BlackRock's Involvement With PEPE Can Be Explained Now: Details

Published 2023-05-19, 09:34 a/m
Updated 2023-05-19, 10:46 a/m
© Reuters.  BlackRock's Involvement With PEPE Can Be Explained Now: Details

U.Today - On May 18, @lookonchain analytics account spread the word that BlackRock (NYSE:BLK) Fund was likely a meme coins as it withdrew a massive amount of them from Binance.

Now, the same Twitter account added a possible explanation as to what may have happened.

Is BlackRock really involved in PEPE trading?

The analytics account assumed that these four wallets were newly created ones by .

However, today, @lookonchain provided an update, saying that this may have been a random address registered on the .eth domain under the name of BlackRock Fund.

CEO of BlackRock Larry Fink is well known for his anti-crypto rhetoric. As many "big wigs" from Wall Street, Fink only looks at Bitcoin, and he has slammed BTC recently for being overhyped. It seems unlikely that he would approve of this investment management company trading meme coins.

PEPE market performance

The coin has been going down sharply after a peak of $0.000002044 reached on May 13. On that day, PEPE was up 54% after "meme lord" Elon Musk added an image of Pepe the Frog to his tweet.

The official account of the meme coin then retweeted that.

This article was originally published on U.Today

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