The team contacted onchain sleuth ZackXBT to investigate who provided several pieces of evidence contradicting Jaypeg’s claims. The onchain detective revealed that the receiving address of the roughly $2,200 in Uptober tokens, beginning with “8jpz1p,” was the same address that claimed airdrops from the Solana Saga smartphone on January 10, 2024, hours after Jaypeg posted a Solana Saga unboxing video and referenced the airdrops.
Jaypeg maintains that the wallet address posted in the Telegram group was a “random address” — which prompted the influencer to delete the messages featuring the address from the Telegram group.
The memecoin influencer also claimed that the Uptober team was attempting to blackmail him and, in a public apology, purportedly donated the money to a charity.
