{"id":72569,"date":"2026-05-15T16:14:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T16:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/zachxbt-says-95-of-lab-token-is-insider-controlled-as-investigation-exposes-multi-front-retail-rug-bitcoin-news\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T16:14:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T16:14:42","slug":"zachxbt-says-95-of-lab-token-is-insider-controlled-as-investigation-exposes-multi-front-retail-rug-bitcoin-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/zachxbt-says-95-of-lab-token-is-insider-controlled-as-investigation-exposes-multi-front-retail-rug-bitcoin-news\/","title":{"rendered":"ZachXBT Says 95% of LAB Token Is Insider-Controlled as Investigation Exposes Multi-Front Retail Rug \u2013 Bitcoin News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>(Originally posted on : Bitcoin News )<\/b><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"@container mb-[25px] rounded-sm overflow-clip py-0.5 pr-0.5 pl-2.5 bg-success-100\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-col gap-m overflow-clip rounded-[6px] !bg-success-10 p-3 @[420px]:p-m\">\n<h2 class=\"m-0 flex items-center gap-s text-[19px] !text-[#1c1c1c] md:text-[20px]\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"16\" height=\"10\" viewbox=\"0 0 16 10\" fill=\"none\" class=\"shrink-0 text-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"M1 1.5h14\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2.5\" stroke-linecap=\"round\"\/><path d=\"M1 8.5h10\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2.5\" stroke-linecap=\"round\"\/><\/svg><span>Key Takeaways<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul class=\"m-0 flex list-none flex-col gap-m pl-0\">\n<li class=\"m-0 flex items-start gap-s !text-[#434248]\"><span class=\"mt-2 size-2 shrink-0 rounded-full bg-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><span class=\"text-body\">ZachXBT alleges LAB insiders control over 95% of supply and coordinated a 350% pump to a $6B FDV using Bitget infrastructure.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"m-0 flex items-start gap-s !text-[#434248]\"><span class=\"mt-2 size-2 shrink-0 rounded-full bg-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><span class=\"text-body\">The investigation exposes four simultaneous retail extraction methods: OTC loans at 7.5%\/month, vesting changes, unpaid marketing rewards, and an opaque market-making deal.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"m-0 flex items-start gap-s !text-[#434248]\"><span class=\"mt-2 size-2 shrink-0 rounded-full bg-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><span class=\"text-body\">ZachXBT posted a $10,000 bounty on LAB founder Vova Sadkov and called on Binance, Bitget, and Gate to freeze insider profits or delist immediately.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight:400\">A $6 Billion Project Built on Hidden Supply<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">LAB launched its token generation event in October 2025, positioning itself as an AI-powered trading terminal. <\/span>In early May 2026, the token surged over 350% in under 72 hours, briefly touching a $6 billion fully diluted valuation ( <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitcoin.com\/get-started\/what-is-fdv-fully-diluted-value\/\" class=\"lar_link lar_link_outgoing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FDV<\/a>) before crashing more than 65% within hours, a move ZachXBT alleges was engineered in coordination with an unknown market maker and Bitget insiders.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The investigation shows wallets linked to the LAB team deposited 96 million LAB tokens into Bitget accounts shortly before the pump. Between March and April 2026, insiders accumulated 226 million LAB in Bitget addresses, where the tokens sat dormant. Then, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitcoin.com\/\" class=\"lar_link lar_link_outgoing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bitcoin.com<\/a> News reported, 100 million <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/lab-token-bitget-withdrawal-manipulation-2026\/\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">LAB worth approximately $480 million <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\">moved out to 10 freshly created wallets in a 12-hour window between May 11 and 12.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Four Ways the Team Is Extracting From Retail<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">ZachXBT laid out multiple concurrent extraction mechanisms running simultaneously:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\"><strong>(i) Private OTC loans:<\/strong> Co-founder Vova Sadkov signed loan agreements carrying a 7.5% monthly interest rate for six months, with OTC deals priced at 60\u201380% discounts to market. Some arrangements required key opinion leaders (KOLs) to post multiple times promoting the project before their tokens could unlock, a shill requirement baked directly into the financial terms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\"><strong>(ii) Vesting changes:<\/strong> The LAB team unilaterally extended the cliff period for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitcoin.com\/get-started\/what-is-a-token-sale\/\" class=\"lar_link lar_link_outgoing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">public sale<\/a> participants from three months to nine months without buyer consent. Participants who agreed to specific lockup terms found them changed after the fact.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\"><strong>(iii) Marketing reward clawbacks:<\/strong> Creators who ran promotional campaigns for LAB have reported waiting months for payouts, with no clarification from the team on timelines or whether payments will come at all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\"><strong>(iv) Opaque market-making:<\/strong> ZachXBT identified a market-making agreement between LAB and an unnamed counterparty whose terms were never disclosed to token holders, a structure that allowed coordinated price management without any transparency.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The Bitget Angle<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">In all of this, ZachXBT <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/zachxbt-bitget-shawn-liu-cex-cartel-2026\/\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">specifically named Bitget<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\">, calling the exchange part of a \u201cChinese <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitcoin.com\/get-started\/what-is-a-cex\/\" class=\"lar_link lar_link_outgoing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CEX<\/a> cartel\u201d that enables these schemes to operate. He also named Shawn Liu, not publicly-facing CEO Gracy Chen, as the behind-the-scenes operator, alleging that Liu facilitates these arrangements while Chen serves as the public face of the exchange.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">ZachXBT also posted a $10,000 bounty targeting LAB founder Vova Sadkov, seeking contracts, chat records, or insider documents from the market-making activities across exchanges. The developments follow his <span>expos\u00e9 of the RAVE token<\/span>, in which he alleged that a group controlling more than 90% of its circulating supply coordinated trades across exchanges to engineer a pump-and-dump.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">LAB founders Vova Sadkov and co-founder Mark previously ran Eesee, a project that left investors feeling abandoned when the team pivoted away without delivering on commitments.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/zachxbt-lab-token-insider-control-bitget-investigation-2026\/\">Source link <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Originally posted on : Bitcoin News ) Key Takeaways ZachXBT alleges LAB insiders control over 95% of supply and coordinated a 350% pump to a $6B FDV using Bitget infrastructure. The investigation exposes four simultaneous retail extraction methods: OTC loans at 7.5%\/month, vesting changes, unpaid marketing rewards, and an opaque market-making deal. ZachXBT posted a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3947362404,"featured_media":72570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3947362404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}