Pundit Drops Bombshell Exposé On Kadena Team After Closure Announcement Saw KDA Price Crash Over 60%

This week, the cryptocurrency community was rocked after Kadena’s sudden shutdown announcement sent the KDA price crashing by over 60% in a few ￰0￱ massive price collapse triggered an enormous sell-off as investors scrambled to understand the abrupt closure of the once-promising blockchain ￰1￱ after, a shocking exposé from analysts revealed that the problems ran far deeper than market conditions, hinting at serious internal misconduct and ￰2￱ Scandal Exposed After KDA Price Crash A day after the KDA price crash on Tuesday, crypto analyst Lovrin revealed on X social media that several Kadena employees were allegedly caught shorting the token with leverage just before shutdown announcements, securing tens of millions of dollars in ￰3￱ reports indicate that crypto exchanges purportedly facilitated these trades, painting a picture of coordinated internal ￰4￱ Reading: Most Coordinated Attack In Crypto History?

What Led To $19 Billion In Losses As Bitcoin Price Crashed Adding fuel to the scandal, a viral X post from crypto market commentator @Katexbt exposed additional allegations against the Kadena ￰5￱ post claimed that the Kadena founders, Stuart Popejoy and Will Martino, were allegedly sued by family members over a personal loan used to fund Kadena, raising questions about its financial transparency from the ￰6￱ asserted that the blockchain was effectively non-functional, claiming a throughput of 480,000 transactions per second, yet it lacked real users or ￰7￱ and institutional involvement that were publicly promoted were reportedly exaggerated or fabricated, adding further doubts about the legitimacy of the Kadena ￰8￱ team also allegedly hired a KOL agency, prioritizing selling tokens for real money over paying the marketing firm for its ￰9￱ allegations point to complex ties between Kadena’s leadership and affiliated companies, including the Kaddex domain, which was said to have been registered under Popejoy’s Kadena Eco’s family golf club in ￰10￱ claimed that the blockchain project was slapped with a lawsuit at some point, but it made little difference as the team hid behind a maze of ￰11￱ more shocking, the crypto commentator alleged that the Kadena team had worked with Francesco Melpignano, the former CEO of Kadena Eco, to extract large amounts of KDA, which were then sold near peak prices, netting an estimated $20 million to $80 million in ￰12￱ this, community members reportedly ousted Melpignano, though Katexbt alleges that the former CEO remains on a shell company’s ￰13￱ The Kadena Shutdown On Tuesday, Kadena released a public statement confirming the cessation of all business ￰14￱ team stressed that, despite the organization’s wind-down, the Kadena blockchain would continue to operate independently under a decentralized ￰15￱ Reading: $19 Billion Bitcoin And Crypto Wipeout: What Caused The XRP Price To Crash 50% In A Single Candle?

The announcement described the closure as a response to market volatility and unfavourable conditions, expressing gratitude to staff, partners, and the ￰16￱ Kadena team clarified that the blockchain itself was not owned or operated by the company, emphasizing that independent miners and maintainers would govern it in the ￰17￱ also noted that about 566 million KDA remain to be distributed as mining rewards through 2139, while 83.7 million tokens are scheduled to come out of lockup by November ￰18￱ image from Getty Images, chart from ￰19￱