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Investors are furious over Haliey Welch’s Hawk Tuah (HAWK) meme coin launch, filing SEC complaints after a brief surge followed by a 91% drop amid insider trading allegations.
“I really lost $43k apeing in hawk tuah coin,” one disgruntled investor said in a Dec. 5 X <a href="https://x.com/lynk0x/status/1864522405395194039" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">post</a>.
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<h2 id="span-style-font-weight-400-hawk-tuah-meme-coin-soars-to-a-peak-market-cap-of-490-million-span">Hawk Tuah Meme Coin Soars To A Peak Market Cap Of $490 Million</h2>
The Hawk Tuah <a href="https://insidebitcoins.com/news/trending-meme-coins-to-buy-now-december-4-volt-inu-garlicoin-coffee" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">meme coin</a> was launched on Dec. 4, 10:00 p.m. UTC. Shortly after its market debut, the token’s market cap soared to a peak of $490 million.&nbsp;
However, not long after reaching its peak valuation, HAWK saw its market cap plunge 91% to $41.7 million. It has since recovered slightly. <a href="https://dexscreener.com/solana/exygvxvrvujjryo65vyuhlaccxhwyztkqa7jxqit2tvr" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">DexScreener data</a> shows the meme coin’s market cap stands at around $51.7 million as of 1:59 a.m. EST.
Aggregated <a href="https://app.bubblemaps.io/sol/token/HAWKThXRcNL9ZGZKqgUXLm4W8tnRZ7U6MVdEepSutj34?mode=3" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">data</a> from DexScreener and Bubblemaps shows that insider wallets and snipers, who are wallets that buy up a large amount of tokens as soon as they launch, controlled approximately 80-90% of the meme coin’s supply at launch.
Solana block explorer <a href="https://solscan.io/account/HiiqhjDF8hgeBbnbZNdkyjx6Wvy2oefvh85GokojbRnN#transfers" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Solscanner</a> also shows that one wallet purchased 17.5% of HAWK’s supply just seconds after it launched using 4,195 Wrapped Solana (WSOL) worth $993,000 at the time. Over the course of the next one and a half hours, the same wallet sold 135.8 million HAWK for a $1.3 million profit.
<h2 id="span-style-font-weight-400-welch-denies-insider-trading-allegations-as-observers-warn-of-legal-backlash-span">Welch Denies Insider Trading Allegations As Observers Warn Of Legal Backlash</h2>
Welch’s official X account responded to the insider allegations in a Dec. 5 post, saying that the team did not sell any tokens. No KOLs were given free coins either and HAWK was launched on the decentralized liquidity protocol Meteora to reduce sniping risk as well, according to the post.
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 Copy and pasting:
 Hawkanomics:
 Team hasn’t sold one token and not 1 KOL was given 1 free token
 We tried to stop snipers as best we could through high fee’s in the start of launch on <a href="https://twitter.com/MeteoraAG?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">@MeteoraAG</a>
 Fee’s have now been dropped <a href="https://t.co/E7xN9VmCrx" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">pic.twitter.com/E7xN9VmCrx</a>
 — Haliey Welch (@HalieyWelchX) <a href="https://twitter.com/HalieyWelchX/status/1864448384326881713?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">December 4, 2024</a>
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Regardless, observers have warned that Welch and her team could face legal scrutiny from the <a href="https://insidebitcoins.com/news/bitcoin-breaks-100k-for-the-first-time-in-history-after-donald-trump-nominates-pro-crypto-paul-atkins-for-sec-chair" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">SEC</a>. Several users have slaredy <a href="https://x.com/imperooterxbt/status/1864469664249569727" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">claimed</a> that they have filed complaints with the regulator.
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Investors Outraged At Hawk Tuah Meme Coin Launch, File Complaints With SEC After 91% Drop

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