Trader Turns $500 to Million-Dollar Fortune With BALD Memecoin on Coinbase’s Blockchain

The lack of a two-way token bridge, a clunky decentralized exchange (DEX) experience, and a network being closed to the public have not deterred crypto traders from finding their way to Coinbase’s layer 2 blockchain in the hopes of unearthing a fortune.

Base, built by crypto exchange Coinbase on OP Stack, launched its testnet in January and opened to builders in mid-July basis the submission of applications to Base. Traction was scant, so far, as only a few DEXs went live on Base.

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The tides shifted late on Saturday. Crypto Twitter user @cheatcoiner seemed to first tweet about meme coin bald (BALD) – funded by coinbase staked ether (cbETH) – on Base network, stating they picked up 2% of the supply.

Such tweets are commonly known as “calls” colloquially – mostly made up of influencers hyping up tokens only to dump them on unsuspecting followers at higher prices. The use of cbETH quickly gave rise to speculative among crypto trading circles about the token likely created being issued by someone at Coinbase.

Bought 2% under 50k mcap.

This is going to be a make it play. I’m
Not touching the bags until 100M mcap.https://t.co/AZ6sxk3l5J$BALD $BASE

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— cheatcoiner.eth (@cheatcoiner) July 29, 2023

What followed was a bull market speedrun: In less than six hours, bald tokens amassed a $50 million market capitalization as their popularity picked up among trading circles. It ran up to $85 million capitalization late on Sunday – netting @cheatcoiner over $1.4 million from an initial $500 investment.

From issuance to peak, the price rise was a 4,000,000% surge.

and people legitimately ask us why we’re in this space sometimes pic.twitter.com/VcbW9IP9pp

— Prince of PulseChain | Manifesting | Gh0Stly (@DextMoon) July 30, 2023

BALD market liquidity quickly piled on as the developer of bald tokens kept adding more ether to a liquidity pool that traded bald against ether. As of Monday, the trading pair holds over $32 million in liquidity and has surpassed $100 million in volumes.

As such, @Cheatcoiner wasn’t the only lottery winner. Blockchain sleuth Lookonchain said Monday that four crypto wallet addresses transferred a cumulative 0.534 ether, or just over $1,0000, to buy 50 million BALD within 4 mins of the token’s issuance.

These addresses – likely insider wallets connected to the developer – sold 37 million $BALD for 554 ether as trading volumes picked up, netting $1 million in less than a day.

These 4 addresses spent 0.534 $ETH($1K) to buy 50M $BALD (50% of the total supply) within 4 mins of $BALD starting trading.

Then sold 37M $BALD for 554 $ETH($1.04M).

Earned $1M with $1K in 1 day! pic.twitter.com/gXIDRjbhic

— Lookonchain (@lookonchain) July 30, 2023

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How much of these gains make their way out of Base remains to be seen, however. As of Monday, there is only a one-directional way to move funds over to Base from Ethereum, with no official support for the other way.