James Wynn Launched a $WORLD Token and Walked Away With $260



 If you follow crypto Twitter, you already know James Wynn. The man turned a $7,000 stake in PEPE into over $83 million and became the most-watched trader on Hyperliquid with a $1.25 billion Bitcoin long. Now his name is attached to something much smaller: a Solana meme token called $WORLD that collapsed almost immediately after launch, leaving a trail on-chain that is difficult to look away from.


On-chain tracking account Lookonchain posted on May 28 that Wynn launched $WORLD on Pump.fun and then dumped it. The exit netted 3.2 SOL, which works out to around $260. Transaction records on Solscan showed the wallet movements clearly. The token hit a brief price spike, then fell to near zero within minutes.


Wynn responded quickly, posting on X that his account had been hacked. The problem is that his account had already posted the token's contract address earlier the same day, before Lookonchain flagged the launch. That sequence has raised obvious questions about the timeline.


This follows a pattern. Researchers had previously connected Wynn's wallet to MOONPIG, a Solana meme coin that surged over 1,500% before crashing. Before that, the ASSDAQ token raised $12,400 from buyers who never received any promised airdrop. Wynn's related tweets were later deleted.


The $WORLD chart on Dexscreener shows a single spike followed by a swift collapse. Market cap at the time of writing sat at $3,300. Total profit from the launch: $260.


There is a full breakdown of the on-chain data, the timeline of tweets, and what the Solscan wallet records actually show at CryptoNewsLive.org. If you trade meme coins on Solana or follow high-profile traders, this is worth reading before the next launch drops.


Read the full investigation at CryptoNewsLive.org.

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