Editing Kimchi

**Kimchi** (@kimchi1x) is a pseudonymous [[Solana]] memecoin trader who says he made about $40 million trading [[Official Trump|TRUMP]] after its January 2025 launch. On-chain investigator Specter said there is no verifiable evidence for the figure, and [[Bubblemaps]] estimated his TRUMP profit at about $6 million.[^3][^2] In October 2026 [[pump.fun]] signed him as a creative partner.[^1]

## Background
Kimchi trades under a pseudonym and has not published a real name in the sources reviewed. Coinspeaker reported that "a Kimchi" became crypto slang for $40 million, and that his X feed is dominated by luxury cars and watches, which some traders have picked apart.[^1]

## Notable trades
### Early 2024 launches
On-chain investigator Specter, as reported by Odaily, examined a wallet Kimchi shared in an X reply in April 2024. Specter said it bought STAR in the same minute the token was deployed on 2024-05-30 (about $407 in, $45,600 out), [[Daddy Tate|DADDY]] ANSEM two minutes after deployment on 2024-06-11 (about $730 in, $14,600 out) and MUVA one minute after deployment on 2024-06-26 (about $407 in, $53,000 out).[^3] Specter said exchange deposit clustering linked five more wallets to the same MUVA launch [[Bundling|bundle]].[^3]

### TRUMP
Kimchi's claimed TRUMP profit is usually given as about $40 million.[^1] Specter wrote in July 2026 that "there is no verifiable evidence" that Kimchi made eight-figure profits from TRUMP.[^3] In October 2026 Bubblemaps traced wallets it linked to him and put his TRUMP profit at roughly $6 million, adding that its trace covered only part of the wallet cluster, so a larger hidden address was possible but unproven.[^2] No response from Kimchi to either analysis was reported.[^2][^3]

## Pump.fun partnership
- 2026-10-20: pump.fun announced Kimchi as a creative partner, the same day its app began selling Rolex prize packs amid competition with [[Fomo]]. Co-founder [[Alon Cohen|Alon]] called him "the first ever example of a trader becoming a celebrity".[^1]
- 2026-10-20: a KIMCHI token launched on pump.fun as Kimchi's vlog went live and reached a reported $35–44 million market cap within an hour.[^1][^4] Analyst Ai Yi, cited by Coinspeaker, said Kimchi held 75.32% of its supply and withdrew 1.35 billion PUMP (about $6.43 million) over three hours.[^1] In the vlog Kimchi described pump.fun as "the company that I'm like investing in".[^4]
- Bitquery found that three unattributed wallets [[Sniping|sniped]] the new KIMCHI token and netted about $105,900 across it and an older token of the same name. It did not link those wallets or the deployer to Kimchi on-chain.[^5]
- 2026-10-22: Kimchi's account posted a "Project Kimchi" street poster with a QR code pointing to a new pump.fun token, which Alon reposted. The token reached about $15 million, then fell more than 98% after both posts were deleted about 30 minutes later.[^2][^6]

## Controversies
- Early reports said Kimchi's X account had been hacked during the Project Kimchi episode; on-chain investigators questioned this, citing Alon's quick repost and removal. Neither Kimchi nor pump.fun confirmed a hack.[^2]
- Kimchi removed pump.fun from his X bio and deleted earlier posts about joining the platform.[^2][^6]
- [[Lookonchain]] said, per ForkLog, that several wallets bought Project Kimchi early and sold for more than $385,000 in profit.[^6]
- Kimchi, Alon and pump.fun had made no public statement on the episode at the time of reporting.[^2][^6]

## See also
- [[List of memecoin traders]]
- [[Orangie]]
- [[Ansem]]
- [[Murad]]
- [[Frank]]
- [[Cupsey]]
- [[Cented]]
- [[Unipcs]]

## References
1. [PUMP vs FOMO: Can Signing $40M TRUMP Trader Kimchi Help Pump.fun Win the Launchpad War?](https://www.coinspeaker.com/pump-crypto-pumpfun-kimchi-rolex-fomo/), Coinspeaker, 2026-10-21
2. [Trader Kimchi Goes From Pump.fun Star to Rug Pull Suspect in 48 Hours](https://news.bitcoin.com/market-updates/kimchi-x-account-hacked-project-kimchi-token-crash/), Bitcoin.com News, 2026-10-23
3. [Specter: no verifiable evidence of Kimchi's eight-figure TRUMP profit](https://www.odaily.news/en/newsflash/504252), Odaily, 2026-07-27
4. [$KIMCHI Hits $44M ATH After Kimchi Joins Pump.fun App, but Can It Avoid the Fate of Past Creator Coins?](https://solanafloor.com/news/kimchi-hits-44-m-ath-after-kimchi-joins-pump-fun), SolanaFloor, n.d.
5. [KIMCHI on pump.fun: Three Linked Wallets Dumped the Original and Sniped the Copy for $104K](https://bitquery.io/investigations/kimchi-pumpfun-launch-snipers), Bitquery, 2026-10-21
6. [Memecoin KIMCHI crashed 98% after promotional post was deleted](https://forklog.com/news/memkoin-kimchi-obvalilsya-na-98-posle-udaleniya-reklamnogo-posta), ForkLog, 2026-10-23
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