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Key Takeaways
- ZachXBT alleged Hayes used followers as exit liquidity across NEAR, HYPE, ZEC, and WLD.
- Hayes says he reports his own trades and never advised anyone to buy or sell.
- A macro thesis shift Hayes calls “AI jitters,” not sentiment, drove the sales.
- Hayes still rates HYPE a top crypto product; the sale was timing, not conviction.
Arthur Hayes, co-founder of BitMEX and Chief Investment Officer of Maelstrom, has pushed back on accusations that he used his audience as exit liquidity. In an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph’s Giovanni Pigni, Hayes addressed on-chain investigator ZachXBT’s claim that he publicly promoted HYPE, NEAR, and WLD before dumping his positions, and laid out the macro thesis behind the sales.
The Accusation
The dispute began when ZachXBT questioned in X the timing of Hayes’s exits. Read Entire Article
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