Sui Insider Trading Was Denied Amid SUI Token Rally

Key Points:

• The SUI token surged, leading to allegations of Sui insider trading by the crypto community.
• The Sui Foundation refuted claims that insiders sold $400 million worth of tokens, stating no insiders violated lock-up periods or token supply schedules.

Recent surges in Sui token prices, increasing by 120% over the last month, have fired up accusations of Sui insider trading in the cryptocurrency community.

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Devs Dismiss Sui Insider Trading Allegations as Token Spikes

Investors voiced concern that insiders might be selling tokens during rallies in prices, subsequently taking advantage of the surge. Some claims suggested that insiders sold as much as $400 million in SUI tokens.

Following these claims, the Sui Foundation took to X to make its remarks on the accusation. The Foundation categorically denied these accusations, stating that no insider trading of Sui had taken place by its employees, founders, or investors at either the Foundation or Mysten Labs on that scale during the price increase. They also stressed that there had been no violations of lock-up periods or the circulating supply schedule.

The post was in direct response to a claim by a pseudonymous crypto analyst known as Light, who had started the debate on possible Sui insider trading. The Foundation speculated, despite there being no evidence to this effect, with no specific wallet address provided to which the supposed transactions were made, that the wallet in question most probably belonged to one of its infrastructure partners with tokens subject to lock-up.

Higher Network Activity Powers SUI’s Stellar Performance

The parabolic rise of SUI to $2.22 drew the attention of the cryptocurrency community, which was concerned about the impact the large token holders could have on the market. In general, substantial sales by such significant insiders tend to drive the price of a token down, which usually raises suspicion over such a price increase.

Besides all these allegations, SUI was mostly doing well in the market because the network activities have gone up, and big volumes of transactions were recorded in the previous months.