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Kimchi
Kimchi's X profile picture
Person
X@kimchi1x
Also known askimchi1x
Kimchi Trader
Roletrader
Active since2024
Known forPseudonymous Solana trader who claims about $40M profit on TRUMP; pump.fun creative partner in October 2026
StatusActive

Kimchi (@kimchi1x) is a pseudonymous Solana memecoin trader who says he made about $40 million trading 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[edit]

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[edit]

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 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 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[edit]

  • 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 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 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[edit]

  • 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[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ PUMP vs FOMO: Can Signing $40M TRUMP Trader Kimchi Help Pump.fun Win the Launchpad War?, Coinspeaker, 2026-10-21
  2. ^ Trader Kimchi Goes From Pump.fun Star to Rug Pull Suspect in 48 Hours, Bitcoin.com News, 2026-10-23
  3. ^ Specter: no verifiable evidence of Kimchi's eight-figure TRUMP profit, 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?, SolanaFloor, n.d.
  5. ^ KIMCHI on pump.fun: Three Linked Wallets Dumped the Original and Sniped the Copy for $104K, Bitquery, 2026-10-21
  6. ^ Memecoin KIMCHI crashed 98% after promotional post was deleted, ForkLog, 2026-10-23
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