User pays a $120 000 fee to buy the meme token FOUR

The network called this step justified, based on the growth of the asset’s rate

09.05.2023 - 09:20

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The move worked out in the end as the entity is sitting on a fat profit of several hundred thousand.

Crypto traders are paying through the roof to get in early on newly-issued meme coins and rack up a large percentage of the supply.

On-chain data shows a trader paid over 64 ether (ETH) in fees on Monday to get 84 ether worth of four (FOUR), a newly-issued meme token on the Ethereum blockchain likely based on the Crypto Twitter meme of “4.”

This means that the trader spent over $120,000 to get $156,000 worth of FOUR tokens. However, some sleuths pointed out that the trader was only the second entity to buy FOUR – and is now sitting on an unrealized profit of nearly $240,000.

Data from DEXTools show FOUR tokens have seen $136 million in trading volumes on the first day of trading and have a market capitalization of $30 million as of Tuesday.

As such, further on-chain data shows the top early FOUR buyers are sitting on profits of $240,000 to $2 million – suggesting why traders were ready to pay outrageously large amounts in fees to purchase the tokens.

The current hot ball of money in crypto is hunting for jokes instead of fundamental plays, which has contributed toward extremely large gas fees on the Ethereum blockchain.

This material is taken from the website https://www.coindesk.com.

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