Sahil Arora says he paid Ansem. The wallet trace found no link

Sahil Arora, the promoter whose name was attached to a wave of celebrity tokens in 2024 and who has been accused of fraudulent activities,Cointelegraph, Iggy Azalea’s MOTHER memecoin triumphs over scandal-ridden IGGY. spent Friday posting what he calls receipts against crypto influencers from the X account @villainmonkey. The account shows only the name “sahil”, but in one of those posts he said he had run @habibi_comm,Replies on X by Ansem and others, 2024 to 2026. the account X suspended in 2024 as Arora’s.Cointelegraph, Celebrity memecoin promoter Sahil Arora banned by X (TradingView copy). His main target is Ansem, a trader known for his Solana and memecoin calls.Phemex Academy, Who is Ansem, the Solana trader behind the ANSEM token. Arora wrote on X that he paid Ansem “~100k to push $MOTHER”,Posts on X by @villainmonkey, November 2026. the token Iggy Azalea launched. Ansem rejects it. “no i have never done anything with sahil, he is a scammer and ive been calling him a scammer since the very beginning,” he wrote.

These are allegations from an interested party. Arora says he holds a 4% stake in a token named after Ansem, and on Friday he also wrote that he needs “one more 100M runner to retire”. But he posted transaction records too, and those can be read by anyone. They are real. We traced them, and the wallets around them, for the weeks around the launches. The trace found no flow between the wallets around his payment and the wallets he attributes to Ansem. Most of that money went to exchange addresses, where the ledger stops.

The transfer

Arora’s first exhibit is a screenshot of a Solana transfer. He wrote that “129 SOL (~22k then)” went to Ansem “moments before Iggy Azalea dropped $MOTHER”. The transfer exists: 129.5 SOL left a wallet beginning 7s3v1j for an address beginning 8A9jAg at 00:28 UTC on 28 May 2024.Solana public ledger, wallets cited by Arora (read 6 November 2026).

The timing is looser than that. MOTHER’s trading pair appeared 20 hours 36 minutes later. The sender had also just made a trade: 95 minutes before the transfer it sold a token for 151.55 SOL. The sum is well below the “~100k” Arora cites.

The deposit address

The 8A9jAg address is an exchange deposit address. Solscan tags it as Binance, and each balance was swept to a wallet Solscan names Binance 2. Arora treats it as Ansem’s, and tagged Binance’s founder to say he “can help doxx”.

Deposit addresses of this kind normally belong to one customer, so the question is who filled it. Over its life the address took in 2,583.48 SOL from nine wallets. Four of those wallets moved funds among themselves and supplied 94 percent of the total. One is the wallet that sent the 129.5 SOL. Another is the address Cointelegraph identified in 2024 as the one “Arora used for the presale” of his IGGY token. Neither of the two wallets Arora attributes to Ansem appears among the depositors.

That pattern fits a person banking their own money. It does not prove it. The presale address sent 663.22 SOL to the same deposit address on 8 June 2024, about $105,000 at that day’s price and close to the sum Arora names. A payment to someone else could look like that. So could a balance being moved out: less than two days later the same wallet sent 663.00 SOL to a different exchange address, then 1,260 SOL more by 11 June.Solana public ledger, wallets linked to Arora’s payment and AVAZvHLR (read 7 November 2026).

Where the money went

In the periods we read, the four wallets sent at least 12,827.6 SOL to outside addresses, and 82 percent of it went to three addresses. One is 8A9jAg. Arkham, a blockchain analytics firm, labels the second a Binance deposit address and the third a Poloniex deposit address.Arkham labels for the group’s recipients, 7 November 2026. The Poloniex address took 6,152.2 SOL from the four wallets, about $893,000 at daily closing prices. Over its life nearly all of what it received came from them.

The last deposits to the two Binance addresses came on 8 and 9 June 2024, and the bulk of the Poloniex transfers began on 10 June. Those sums are flows, not profit. Cointelegraph reported ZachXBT’s view that Bubblemaps had “incorrectly flagged a wallet address at the crypto exchange Poloniex” as Arora’s.Cointelegraph, Memecoin ‘mastermind’ Sahil likely made $3M from ‘Celeb meta’: ZachXBT. We cannot say whether that is this address.

Two details cut against a tidy reading. The second Binance address drew 92 percent of its SOL from the same group, which suggests a second account. The likeness points to one holder, but the ledger cannot say whose. Eight smaller exchange addresses also received sums from the group, and a payment to another person could take that form. None is tied to anyone.

The MOTHER trades

Arora names a wallet beginning AVAZvHLR as Ansem’s main wallet. Its record on MOTHER does not look like a promoter handed supply. Its first purchase came about 17 hours after the trading pair appeared, and every MOTHER movement in its token account was a swap against a liquidity pool. No wallet transferred MOTHER to it. It spent about 781 SOL buying and took about 644 SOL selling, a loss of about 138 SOL. Its token accounts for JENNER and JASON show no history at all.

That covers one wallet, and a person can hold others. Whose wallet it is remains unproven.

Ansem gave his own account of MOTHER days after it launched, in a reply to ZachXBT. He said he had joined the Spaces for Caitlyn Jenner’s token “to ask Qs & didnt promote it”, and that he had asked Azalea to let him co-host her Spaces “to see what she had to say ab crypto”.

The launch wallets

The ledger shows more about where launch money went. The wallet that created JENNER, which Arkham labels “caitlyn” on Pump.fun, sent the 7s3v1j wallet 101 SOL and 61 SOL within 40 minutes of the trading pair appearing, and 282.57 SOL by 20 June. That wallet had also bought JENNER for 2.02 SOL and sold it for 100.82 SOL within the hour.

The creator of JASON, labelled “jasondevv”, sent it 109 SOL between 25 and 29 June. Three of the four wallets bought JASON within 85 seconds of each other, about four minutes before its pair appeared. One of them turned 6.98 SOL into 1,071.14 SOL. Those purchases were open to anyone, and the ledger does not say why the creators paid that wallet or who controlled them.

The June withdrawals

Arora’s second exhibit concerns a wallet beginning 3bzbmH78, which he calls Ansem’s sub-wallet. He wrote that it “received 504.5 SOL (about $69,000) in two exchange withdrawals” two days after Jason Derulo’s token launched. The total is right, though the two transfers came from different sending wallets. Arkham labels one of them a HitBTC withdrawal wallet.Arkham and Pump.fun labels for the wallets cited, 6 November 2026.

The history of that wallet complicates the timing. The second sender paid it 173.70 SOL on 17 May 2024, nine days before JENNER’s trading pair appeared. And the money ran both ways. The wallet sent SOL to four addresses Arkham labels as HitBTC deposits, starting in April 2024 and including 54.6 SOL on 5 June. Arora’s own description is that the pattern fits “the same person withdrawing through the same exchange account twice”. Someone paying into and drawing from an exchange account would leave that trail.

If Arora funded those withdrawals, the money should leave his side and reach HitBTC. In the periods we read, no transfer of 0.5 SOL or more ran between the four wallets and that sub-wallet, its two funders or its HitBTC deposit addresses. None of the group’s 20 largest outside recipients carries a HitBTC label. The main wallet Arora names does share transactions with his wallets, but all were token drops signed by third parties, and no SOL moved. Exchanges break trails, though. Money paid in at one venue and moved out by another route would not show here.

The screenshots

The rest of Arora’s case is chat screenshots, which the ledger cannot test. In the one he aimed at Ansem, the other party appears only as a contact called Z. Ansem says the writing is not his: “also bro i dont text like that, look at the capitalization of the words”. He posted a chat of his own, which Arora calls blank.

The argument has a history. In May 2024, when Arora posted a screenshot of a message he attributed to her, Azalea told followers not to believe “the bullshit fake screen shots”.

What would settle it

One record would decide the central point: Binance’s customer file for the 8A9jAg address, the record Arora himself pointed to. Exchanges do not publish those. Arora says “every single celeb launch” came with a payment, and so far he has shown one transfer. In one reply he wrote “Paid in USDC”. He has shown no such payment, and we did not trace USDC.