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September 21, 2025Finbold logoFinbold

MrBeast is buying this hot crypto amid insider trading allegations

YouTube personality Jimmy Donaldson, also known as MrBeast , has been linked to new cryptocurrency activity after depositing into the newly launched Aster (ASTER) token. On-chain analysis indicates that a wallet associated with MrBeast deposited 114,483 USDT, worth about $114,480, into ASTER, according to the latest on-chain data retrieved by Finbold from Arkham on September ￰0￱ wallet transaction.), an influencer with 31.2M followers, has engaged in insider trading, misleading investors, and using his influence to pump tokens, only to dump them ￰1￱ has made over $23M in profits from various crypto projects: $11.45M from $SUPER $4.65M from $ERN … ￰2￱ — Lookonchain (@lookonchain) October 30, 2024 Meanwhile, Aster itself has already become the focus of investor speculation following its meteoric rise since ￰3￱ instance, on-chain data indicates that another high-profile crypto trader, Cooker Flips, turned a $1.24 million position into $6.7 million in just three ￰4￱ accumulated 5.57 million ASTER tokens at an average entry price of $0.20 and, as of September 20, was sitting on an unrealized profit of more than $5 ￰5￱ officially launched on September 17 following the merger of Astherus and APX ￰6￱ by YZi Labs, formerly Binance Labs, and with public support from former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, the project is being marketed as a next-generation decentralized ￰7￱ price analysis At press time, ASTER was trading at $1.79, having rallied almost 80% in the last 24 ￰8￱ weekly chart shows the token is up more than 2,000%.

ASTER one-week price chart.

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