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"Students for Trump co-founder denies rug pull accusations after selling half of 'TIKTOK' memecoin's supply"
Primary Source ↗Incident Details
Ryan Fournier, a co-founder of the Students for Trump organization, worked with a memecoin creator to create a $TIKTOK memecoin, which he said was intended to celebrate TikTok lifting its brief restriction on US users amid an impending ban. The token quickly increased in price amid early attention. However, when the price began to drop, Fournier dumped 505 million TIKTOK for around $700,000 in SOL.Fournier posted on Twitter, claiming he was scammed by his collaborator. When accused of rugging the token, Fournier replied “I’m very new to crypto and I promise you I didn’t rug it.” “Buddy, we see your wallet. It’s all on-chain,” replied another person. Fournier, apparently not knowing he was describing a rug pull, wrote: “I literally sold because it was going down increasingly. I don’t know who wouldn’t do that.”
Technical Details
- Initial Attack Vector
- Exit scam / rug pull
- Vendor / Product
- Tweet thread with Ryan Fournier
Timeline
- 2025-01-19 Breach occurred
- 2025-01-19 Publicly disclosed