WorldCup Insider Wallet Drains $24M in Suspicious Bets
Three wallets with a perfect-or-near-perfect hit rate on the same event funneled every dollar to the same Binance deposit address before going dark.
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Three wallets with a perfect-or-near-perfect hit rate on the same event funneled every dollar to the same Binance deposit address before going dark.
The 604M-token stash in the named KOL's wallet is now worth more than the entire initial mints of several 2025 launches, with no mechanism in the token contract to dilute or unlock it.
The wallet placed one position and vanished with the payout, reviving questions about whether prediction-market whales are actually retail or just well-capitalised insiders running anonymous books.
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A $70M-plus wallet drain, ETF outflows, and a Coinbase treasury race all point to the same uncomfortable read on institutional rails.
Custody model, key type, recovery, chain support, open-source code, and business incentives: six axes that cut through wallet marketing and reveal real trade-offs.
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Real-world asset tokens like BUIDL and OUSG are the newest disguise for wallet-draining phishing. Here is the exact pattern scammers use and the checks that catch it.
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