Pump.Fun, the world’s largest memecoin factory, has made it possible for anybody to create their own cryptocurrency. But years before the platform launched, an individual going by the same name as one of its cofounders, Dylan Kerler, was already making a small fortune hawking—then dumping—home-baked coins.
A WIRED investigation identified eight coins launched by an individual using the name Dylan Kerler in 2017. At that point, the Dylan Kerler who cofounded Pump.Fun was 16 years old. Two of the coins—eBitcoinCash and EthereumCash—gained traction on a crypto forum before tumbling in price, leading investors to allege that the developer
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