MrBeast Investigation
INTRODUCTION
MrBeast, one of the most popular YouTubers with over 320 million subscribers across his main and side channels, has recently faced public scrutiny over various controversies. Allegations have emerged, including claims of faked videos, running illegal lotteries and employees with questionable track records. In addition, MrBeast's involvement in cryptocurrency has come under fire, with YouTubers like Rosana Pansino and DogPacks404 touching on the subject. However, their investigations only skimmed the surface of MrBeast’s crypto activities.
A team of researchers has since conducted a more detailed analysis, uncovering connections to over 50 cryptocurrency wallets linked to MrBeast. Their findings suggest a long history of insider trading, misleading investors, and using his influence to promote tokens, only to later dump them on the market. This document delves into the various tokens associated with these allegations and the insider trading claims, starting with identifying the wallets tied to MrBeast.
This article will investigate MrBeast’s activities across his 50+ secret wallets, uncovering insider trading and questionable deals. This investigation was put together by:
@hxnterson on-chain analyst
@kasperloock from @loockadvising
With help from:
@angelfacepeanut social media & brain rot expert
@somaxbt on-chain analyst
@rfparson intern @loockadvising
MAPPING OUT THE BEAST
On-chain researchers have tried to map out MrBeast’s hive of wallets, the first being angelfacepeanut’s trace
Hunter added several more wallets into the mix:
FIRST PRINCIPLES
MrBeast’s primary wallet address is 0x9e67D018488aD636B538e4158E9e7577F2ECac12, from which multiple side wallets often branch off. As noted in this tweet, he has publicly revealed his wallets on several occasions, such as when he announced his purchase of CryptoPunks.
Moreover, in several projects which MrBeast has been associated with, such as SuperFarm, ERN, Refinable, etc, has sent their allocations to this wallet 0x9e6.
NFTs
In a podcast clip, MrBeast discusses his acquisitions of CryptoPunks and VeeFriends, which align with his on-chain activity showing purchases of VeeFriends across two wallets.
MR. BEAST'S INFLUENTIAL CALL WITH LOGAN PAUL & GARY VAYNERCHUK
One of these is the wallet below:
EXCHANGE INTERACTIONS
While MrBeast uses a variety of exchanges, his most common are Gemini and Binance. His Binance account alone has seen transfers totaling over $13 million.
The above wallet 0x360 is funded by Binance and then sends 200 ETH (worth $630.24k to MrBeast’s main wallet 0x9e6
This wallet interacts with 0xb5bf6777e3524aD0ffCC5a37375cc49a4BE92F64 which has strong outflows to Gemini Deposit 0xD6210f2dc5323f4a1B4b766a0e732d6DfA26935B ($196.34k sent to that deposit)
Though many of MrBeast’s wallets connect, with solid inflows sent from one another, a strong piece of evidence that connects them to MrBeast is the shared deposit address. To elaborate further, when you want to deposit funds to an exchange, the exchange creates a deposit address that tends to be re-used, when we look at MrBeast’s network of wallets, most of them share the same deposit of address 0xD62. This means that, when MrBeast wants to send funds to his Gemini exchange, he uses an address sent by Gemini 0xD62 and here we see several MrBeast affiliated wallets also sent to that same exchange address.
In this trace, we put Gemini Deposit 0xD62 at the centre, and all the MrBeast affiliated wallets surrounding 0xD62. You will see how they all interact with each other, with large inflows/outflows to and from each other.
A shared gemini deposit 0xD62 though is a strong indicator, we use other things to associate MrBeast with having owned that wallet. Things such as, having large inflows from MrBeast’s confirmed wallets, large outflows to MrBeast’s confirmed wallets, how much they interact with other MrBeast affiliated wallets.
A good example would be, ‘BobbieDigital’ 0x2c07 wallet, which has heavy inflows from MrBeast - being sent millions of dollars worth of tokens to farm, and then sending funds to Binance and Gemini Deposit 0xD62, exchanges which MrBeast frequently uses. Also sending money to a few other MrBeast associated wallets, and habitually trading tokens through MetaMask swap (which is a common trait across MrBeast wallets). Therefore, there’s a very strong case to be made that this is his wallet. After looking for the signs, we have identified around 25+ wallets belonging to MrBeast.
SuperVerse (formerly SuperFarm)
The first project we have in the list of project farms is SuperFarm (now called SuperVerse). SuperVerse was a cryptocurrency token that had many promises, from making a NFT marketplace, to integrating with games to create a gaming economy, promises to deliver games such as Pizza Heroes and Imposters - two games that were stuck endlessly in development.
SuperVerse was heavily pushed by individuals such as EllioTrades, a YouTube crypto marketer with a shady history of pushing crypto tokens to his fans, to later dump. Alex Becker, also pushed SUPER, mentioning it in his videos. Big influencers such as MrBeast, KSI, LazarBeam pushed the token to their fans, and on-chain activity shows profits of upwards of $10 million for MrBeast, KSI, and LazarBeam.
SUPER had a pre-sale ICO which was open to public investors where each $SUPER token was sold for 0.02 each, however, upon launch, SUPER did a 50x increase and prices jumped to $1 each. Early public investors who thought they had a 50x gain, were suddenly refunded their investments through legal loopholes.
Whilst these public pre-sale investors were refunded their money, investors such as MrBeast and KSI reaped the rewards of their investment and dumped tokens on their followers.
A leaked screenshot from EllioTrade’s stream, shows his twitter communications, showing MrBeast’s interest to put in $100k, which is likely to be towards the $SUPER pre-sale.
MrBeast used his brand and influence to push Super, tweeting about Super from his Twitter/X account:
KSI who’s involved in MrBeast’s network was also involved in marketing $SUPER, and later dumping on his followers (Zach XBT thread)
On-chain history
Summary
MrBeast’s wallet receives an initial batch of 1 million SUPER tokens in his main wallet 0x9e6. This wallet distributes supply to a side wallet 0x4f7, this wallet being a designated wallet to farm in small increments over the period of March to June 2021. Over time MrBeast keeps receiving SUPER supply which he distributes to three wallets, the main being his ‘BobbieDigital’ his 0x2c0 wallet, which was farmed across August to October 2021, and where supply was transferred to 0xED3 to farm across a similar period of time, and lastly to 0x949 which dumped $80k worth in August 2024. In total, MrBeast profited a total of $7.5 million from his initial $100k investment.
Hunter’s (@hxnterson) Arkham trace on SuperVerse
Detailed analysis
SomaXBT X thread shows us the pre-sale investments and allocation that match with the leaked DM conversation.
2021-02-22 MrBeast’s wallet receives an initial batch of 1 million SUPER tokens in his main wallet 0x9e6.
2021-03-30 MrBeast sends 1m SUPER tokens (worth $3.62m) to his side wallet 0x4f7B657a2cAe7A8808Df1D889838d5Da33007ae8
2021-03-30 Within a few days, wallet 0x4f7 sells almost all of its supply.
In the following months, MrBeast’s main wallet 0x9e6 receives several token unlocks, to which he sends to his side wallet 0x4f7:
2021-05-08 237.67k SUPER (worth $526.79k)
2021-05-10 94.662k SUPER (worth $213.81k)
2021-05-12 113.425k SUPER (worth $232.32k)
2021-05-18 250.64k SUPER (worth $379.23k)
2021-05-20 135.207k SUPER (worth $126.42k)
2021-05-27 258.727k SUPER (worth $246.27k)
2021-06-09 785.292k SUPER (worth $451.69k)
2021-06-19 468.968k SUPER (worth $239.89k)
During this time, 0x4f7 dumped all its SUPER holdings shortly after receiving supply, selling its supply incrementally.
In this period of time, 0x4f7 extracts $6,271,959.19
2021-07-27 0x4f7 sends back to MrBeast main wallet 360.25k worth of SUPER (worth $213.88k)
Between June and August, MrBeast’s SUPER related activity goes quiet, but accumulates several token unlocks.
2021-08-16 MrBeast transfers 3.506m SUPER tokens (worth $3.34m) to his wallet “BobbieDigital” 0x2c071Af9dCeFB7155659B662480CbB867997739
2021-08-17 0x2c0 ‘BobbieDigital’ wallet sends 1.5m SUPER (worth $1.55m) to side wallet 0xED3F5d401a270416e5008ce35E07Eb0721D6f8B4
Between 17th of August to 9th of September 2021
0xED3F5 sells most of its SUPER supply, netting $1,173,601.06 in profits.
0xED3F5d401a270416e5008ce35E07Eb0721D6f8B4
Supply sent from ‘BobbieDigital’ wallet
2021-09-18 0xED3F5 then transfers its remaining supply of 335k SUPER (worth $249.64k) back to main wallet 0x9e6
2021-10-06 0x2c0 then sells off their entire SUPER holdings, netting $1,236,915.03
0x2c071Af9dCeFB7155659B662480CbB8679977394
(‘BobbieDigital’) MrBeast’s wallet
2021-09-18 0xED3F5 then transfers its remaining supply of 335k SUPER (worth $249.64k) back to main wallet 0x9e6
2021-10-06 0x2c0 then sells off their entire SUPER holdings, netting $1,236,915.03
0x2c071Af9dCeFB7155659B662480CbB8679977394
(‘BobbieDigital’) MrBeast’s wallet
+------------------------------------------+--------------------+ | Wallet address | Liquidity extracted| +------------------------------------------+--------------------+ | 0x9e67D018488aD636B538e4158E9e7577F2ECac12 | $2,806,644.53 | | 0x4f7B657a2cAe7A8808Df1D889838d5Da33007ae8 | $6,271,959.19 | | 0x2c071Af9dCeFB7155659B662480CbB8679977394 | $1,236,915.03 | | 0xED3F5d401a270416e5008ce35E07Eb0721D6f8B4 | $1,173,601.06 | | 0x949cC70bAa140f5b55717ca938E3c7e4C3b3A016 | $82,414.15 | +------------------------------------------+--------------------+
Subtracting MrBeast’s pre-sale investment of 100k, and the $24.08K buy in 2023, in total across all wallets, the estimated profit is roughly $11,447,453.96
ERN (Ethernity Chain)
Ethernity Chain, launched in 2021, started as a platform dedicated to verifying the authenticity of NFTs, offering a secure marketplace for trading digital collectables. It quickly gained attention through exclusive collections endorsed by celebrities like Muhammad Ali and Pelé. The platform was built on Ethereum and provided users with a trustworthy space for NFT transactions.
Recently, Ethernity transitioned to a Layer 2 solution designed to enhance blockchain scalability for the entertainment sector, integrating AI to improve functionality.
However, the project has been promoted by two cryptocurrency promoters: KoroushAK, known for his involvement with Solstarter, and Cryptorand, known for running a $200/month paid group and his venture capital activities.
MrBeast tweets to EthernityChain
MrBeast enters a Twitter spaces with ERN
On-chain history
ERN Arkham trace
Summary
MrBeast receives a large batch of tokens from the ERN pre-sale, and then accumulates some more supply. He transfers around half of his ERN tokens to 0x2eB7, then transfers the remaining supply to 0x9b00. These two wallets dump their supply shortly after, returning a combined $1,835,033. After five months, MrBeast receives his next allocation of tokens and sells his tokens on the market, returning him $2,976,277. Several months later, MrBeast receives a smaller unlock and holds.
Detailed analysis
2021-03-08 MrBeast main wallet 0x9e6 receives 72k ERN tokens from the pre-sale (worth $458k at the time)
2021-03-08 MrBeast buys 128k USD worth of ERN in three transactions. [1] [2] [3]
2021-05-03 MrBeast transfers 35k ERN to a side wallet 0x2eB7d3c6b31b70a480D4aF1BD8cD05c1b10d38d6 (worth $647k at the time)
2021-05-04 MrBeast’s 0x2eB7 wallet starts to sell all of its supply, emptying the wallet out within a day. The 0x2eB7 wallet profits $857,062.
0x2eB7d3c6b31b70a480D4aF1BD8cD05c1b10d38d6
Trade history
2021-05-04 MrBeast transfers 43k ERN to a side wallet 0x9b00 (worth $1.06m at the time)
2021-05-04 Similar to 0x2eB7, MrBeast’s 0x9b00 wallet sells all its ERN within a day, profiting $977,971.5.
0x9b006708Af63A779D8146CA91A2ae2D34CF0B830
Trade history
2021-10-29 MrBeast main wallet is allocated 181.8k ERN tokens (worth $2.04m)
2021-10-30 MrBeasts main wallet 0x9e6 then sells all the ERN supply, returning $2,976,277.
0x9e67D018488aD636B538e4158E9e7577F2ECac12
Trade history
2021-05-26 MrBeast’s main wallet 0x9e6 is allocated 54.5k ERN (worth $117.5k)
2024-10-18 MrBeast transfers his supply to a new wallet 0x5ba, which he still holds and has not sold.
After subtracting MrBeast’s buys in the beginning, MrBeast across three wallets made a net profit of $4,649,337.96
AIOZ
AIOZ is another token that MrBeast was invested into, and made a large return from. AIOZ was a token that proposes itself as the DePin for Web3 AI, Storage and Streaming. AIOZ marketed MrBeast initial investment as backing for their project.
On-chain history
MrBeast receives AIOZ allocation on two separate times:
2021-04-02 833.33k AIOZ is sent to MrBeast
2021-04-13 To which this allocation is sent to wallet 0x28F4fBC772a47cc08cD7Eb5a9a2420300cbefCff
2021-05-02 166.667k AIOZ is sent to MrBeast
2021-05-11 Then this allocation is sent to the same wallet 0x28F
From 0x28F4, MrBeast sold his holdings over a month's duration. After 225 transactions, MrBeast profits are calculated to be around $1,005,059 (via Debank)
REFINABLE
Refinable was a crypto project aimed at becoming a prominent NFT marketplace. It attracted significant attention due to its backers, including notable figures like MrBeast, who followed the project on Twitter, adding to its visibility and credibility within the crypto community.
Proof of MrBeast following the project can be found in this Reddit post
Refinable used the likeness of MrBeast’s brand to promote their cryptocurrency on their website, from this Cointelegraph article
On-chain activity
MrBeast received Refinable (FINE) token allocation on two dates:
208.333K tokens on 27th of April 2021 (561.19K USD)
59.584K tokens on 23rd of May 2021 (49.49K USD)
On-chain history shows MrBeast selling his positions after launch and making $193,926 in profit.
In the chart below, MrBeast's wallet sold his holdings around the peaks.
0x9e67D018488aD636B538e4158E9e7577F2ECac12
Though Refinable hit an all-time high of $4 at launch, it currently trades for less than $0.002, down 99.96% since launch.
KSI who is a part of MrBeast network also invested in Refinable, catching it before the August/September 2021 pump.
INSIDER TRADING
Through our analysis of MrBeast’s wallets, we found multiple instances where he invested in cryptocurrency projects during pre-sales, leading to substantial returns. Rather than actively trading, MrBeast made several investments that paid off massively.
We have compiled a list of investments that MrBeast made that led to large returns. We believe this is a result of insider trading because MrBeast, as a full-time content creator, has most of his focus set on his social media empire, and his various businesses and partnerships. Cryptocurrency investing takes time and focus, sorting out hundreds of potential investment opportunities to find the right projects to invest in. With MrBeast’s track record of consistently hitting large returns whilst being a full-time content creator and owning various businesses, there is an extremely high likelihood that his success in cryptocurrency investing is not the result of sharp trading intuition but just knowing insider information, particularly related to upcoming brand deals and partnerships within his network, including figures like KSI, GaryVee, and LazarBeam.
Our investigation revealed striking similarities in the cryptocurrency activities of MrBeast, KSI, LazarBeam, Alex Becker, who most have collaborated with MrBeast on YouTube. On-chain analysis shows they were also involved in many of the same projects. This indicates they may have had insider information about promotions and opportunities before the public was aware, enabling MrBeast to make significant gains from only a few strategic investments.
SHOPX
The first project we look at is SHOPX. SHOPX is a project that advertises itself on its website as the “RWA (Real World Assets) bridge that tokenises products to reward customers that drives more revenue.”
However, the reality is that SHOPX was heavily pushed by shady crypto influencers, who pumped the price using their influence to dump on buyers.
An analysis has already been done by ZachXBT on CryptoLark’s involvement in SHOPX
ZachXBT on CryptoBanter who promoted SHOPX and did a pump and dump
MrBeast also follows ShopX on Twitter/X
On-chain activity
Regarding on-chain, we start off with the pre-sale investing schedule. SomaXBT does a great analysis on the early investors of the project.
2021-03-31 From the pre-sale, MrBeast received allocation of 607k SHOPX tokens (worth $2.87m)
2021-04-09 This supply was sent to his side wallet 0x7c1b16F59B1aB069D33CA93aB6CaF2D218A1b6D6
Over a month period, this wallet gradually dumped around half its token allocation onto the market, profiting $493,730.70
2021-10-23 Wallet 0x7c1 sends the rest of the supply to MrBeast, who sold some of the remaining supply on November 5th 2021, making a profit of $16,086.34
+--------------------------------------------------------+--------------+ | Wallet | Profit | +--------------------------------------------------------+--------------+ | 0x7c1b16F59B1aB069D33CA93aB6CaF2D218A1b6D6 | $493,730.70 | | 0x9e67D018488aD636B538e4158E9e7577F2ECac12 | $16,086.34 | +--------------------------------------------------------+--------------+
Total profit: $509,817.04
Deducting the $25,000 investment, MrBeast’s net return is $484,817.04
SHOPX now currently trades at $0.004, down from 99.85% from its all time high. MrBeast’s trading history reveals him dumping most of his positions around the peak.
XCAD
XCAD is another token with a shady backstory, with JMX the previous owner who was implicated in the Save the Kids crypto scam, where influencers peddled a token aimed for charity, only to dump their holdings after. JMX launched XCAD network and used the branding of KSI and MrBeast to market their crypto coin.
XCAD tweets that MrBeast and KSI have invested in their project
KSI regularly shilled XCAD to his followers:
KSI shilling XCAD on the Sidemen podcast
Investigative work into the XCAD scandal has already been done by individuals like ZachXBT and CoffeeZilla.
On-chain analysis of KSI dumping his XCAD holdings after shilling the project.
On-chain activity
Though MrBeast’s involvement in XCAD extended to following XCAD’s Twitter/X profile, on-chain analysis shows MrBeast making around $270k from this project.
2021-05-31 MrBeast’s main wallet 0x9e6 receives 130k XCAD (worth $277.36k)
2021-05-31 MrBeast sends 30k XCAD to wallet 0x57f0CaB49D6E03C5463aaDc1Ad116e1E3533dd2e
2021-06-21 MrBeast sends 100k XCAD to wallet 0x28F4fBC772a47cc08cD7Eb5a9a2420300cbefCff
Wallet 0x28F4 dumped its holdings onto the market, profiting $201,205.30
0x28F4fBC772a47cc08cD7Eb5a9a2420300cbefCff
Sell History
Wallet 0x57f sells supply onto the market, profiting $86,595.70
0x57f0CaB49D6E03C5463aaDc1Ad116e1E3533dd2e
Sell History
+--------------------------------------------------------+----------------+ | Wallet | Money Extracted| +--------------------------------------------------------+----------------+ | 0x28F4fBC772a47cc08cD7Eb5a9a2420300cbefCff | $201,205.30 | | 0x57f0CaB49D6E03C5463aaDc1Ad116e1E3533dd2e | $86,595.70 | +--------------------------------------------------------+----------------+
In total, MrBeast profited $287,801
JIGSTACK (STAK)
Jigstak (STAK) is a project that proposed itself as a utility token for Decentralized Autonomous Organizations. Though MrBeast did not officially follow Jigstak, in his network KSI was involved in promoting Jigstak. From this information, MrBeast invested into Jigstak and made a large return.
KSI pushed Jigstak onto his followers:
On-chain activity
Jigstack Arkham trace
2021-05-03 MrBeast receives 8.8m STAK tokens worth $794k
2021-05-03 MrBeast receives another 6.6m STAK tokens worth $596k
2021-05-04 MrBeast transfers all his STAK tokens to wallet 0x3F642556E288912845364f3B1dd402c0877Bc033
Between May 5th and 14th, 2021, MrBeast’s 0x3F64 wallet began selling all its STAK supply in 244 transactions, netting $783,784.62.
Two weeks later, from 25th of May 2021 to July 6th 2021, MrBeast main wallet 0x9e6 receives four more transfers totally 31m STAK (469k USD)
6.6m tokens at 25th of May 2021 (205.14k USD)
8.8m tokens at 3rd of June 2021 (144.93k USD)
6.8m tokens at 18th of June 2021 (76.14k USD)ƒƒ
9.067m tokens at 6th of July 2021 (44.13k USD)
Between September 18th and October 6th, MrBeast sold around half his supply through a MetaMask swap, netting $274,054.42.
2021-10-06. MrBeast then transfers the remaining half to his wallet 0xb0FD8329A4F59badAfa70072a843b105e23b3975
Within a few days the 0xb0FD wallet sells all of the remaining STAK supply, netting a return of $252,914.26.
In total MrBeast extracted $1,310,753.
Jigstak has had the sharpest declines of any project in this document, down 99.99% from $0.16 at launch to $0.00001199.
Polychain Monsters (PMON)
Polychain Monsters, now renamed Protocol Monster Labs, was a cryptocurrency focused on creating digital collectable monsters on the blockchain.
At launch, PMON’s all-time high was $42, but now it is worth $0.12—down 99.64% from its all-time high. ZachXBT has already written a great article on PMON, its shady founders, and how it benefited the insiders while retail suffered.
KSI was deeply involved in promoting PMON, it's highly likely MrBeast made an investment from that insider information of KSI’s promotion deal with PMON.
On-chain activity
2021-03-31 MrBeast receive his first unlock of 25k PMON, then transferring to his wallet 0x4f7B657a2cAe7A8808Df1D889838d5Da33007ae8 shortly after.
2021-05-10 - MrBeast receives another 68.75k PMON, doing the same thing, transferring to 0x4f7.
MrBeast’s 0x4f7 wallet proceeds to sell incrementally over 574 transactions, extracting around $1,724,652 in profits.
BOSON PROTOCOL (BOSON)
Boson Protocol was a cryptocurrency in which MrBeast had little involvement except following it on Twitter/X.
On-chain activity
MrBeast receives an allocation of BOSON four times:
75k BOSON (worth $380k) on April 9th 2021
75k BOSON (worth $300k) on April 30th 2021
75k BOSON (worth $82K) on May 28th 2021
75K BOSON (worth $49K) on June 30th 2021
The picture below shows the allocations.
On receiving allocation, MrBeast distributes supply to two separate wallets:
0xe5041f2F61a029ADd4a0559cCA82D779e6be57dD sent on May 6th and May 11th 2021
0xcaacB01e9ad7D517E8745bDF2862738E8aA14e2A sent on July 2nd 2021
Wallet 0xe504 sells its supply to Uniswap, totalling 141 transactions, and $465,989 in profit.
The second wallet 0xcaac sends supply to 0xb505 which sends it to a MEXC exchange deposit, which the supply was worth $148,675 at the time of transfer, per Arkham calculations. Though it's unknown what happened since then, it is highly probable that it was sold.
+--------------------------------------------------------+--------------+ | Wallet | Profit | +--------------------------------------------------------+--------------+ | 0xe5041f2F61a029ADd4a0559cCA82D779e6be57dD | $465,989 | | 0xcaacB01e9ad7D517E8745bDF2862738E8aA14e2A | $148,675 | +--------------------------------------------------------+--------------+
In total, MrBeast made $614,664 in profits.
Standard Protocol (STND)
Standard Protocol is one of the more minor protocols. MrBeast was allocated a supply worth $89k, which was sent to his main wallet on 29 April 2021.
2021-05-01 MrBeast then sends his supply to wallet 0x7bbBfeD931a10ad2Fba70336A5988C5cF56d9FE0w
This wallet then sells all the STND supply within a day, netting MrBeast $131,242.10
Today, the price of STND is $0.01155, down 99.5% from its all-time high of $2.6, according to CoinMarketCap. MrBeast’s on-chain history shows him selling his supply near the peaks.
Ally Direct (DRCT)
2021-07-02 - 3.428m DRCT (worth $22.9k) is transferred to MrBeast’s main wallet
2021-10-15 - Another 3.428m DRCT (worth 118.66k) is transferred to the same wallet
Over two days, MrBeast dumps his supply onto the market worth $206,621.17
Ternoa (CAPS)
Ternoa (CAPS) is another token from which MrBeast profited heavily. MrBeast followed Ternoa, and Ternoa pushed MrBeast’s branding to market their coin in the tweets below.
MrBeast follows Ternoa on Twitter/X
On-chain activity
MrBeast received CAPS allocation several times for a year between June 2021 and May 2022 to his wallet 0x9e67D018488aD636B538e4158E9e7577F2ECac12
0x9e67D018488aD636B538e4158E9e7577F2ECac12
Trade history
From the chart, MrBeast dumps his holdings between October to November, making $645,888.70.
In 2023/2024, made two more sell orders totalling $35,787.73
In total, MrBeast made $681,676.44
Ternoa (CAPS) now trades at $0.002473, down 95% from its all-time high of $0.19. MrBeast sold near the peaks.
METIS L2 (METIS)
Metis is a project in which MrBeast made around $500k+ from his pre-sale investment.
A list of some of the investors in the project:
On-chain activity
MrBeast receives token unlocks five times on his main wallet 0x9e6, and disperses his allocation to multiple wallets to farm.
(Disclaimer: Some transfers was when Metis was not on the market, and so Arkham priced it at $0.00, which does not show as an inflow/outflow on the trace due to its value being 0. We annotated the trace to fix this issue)
MrBeast’s 0x9e6 METIS allocations
2021-05-13 MrBeast receives 1k METIS on his main wallet 0x9e6
2021-05-13 This supply is sent to wallet 0x1D34645DaEA7A70d3268Fbe0e31b80b5a43BE27e
2021-10-22 Wallet 0x1D34 starts to sell its supply onto the market, profiting $52,678.84
0x1D34645DaEA7A70d3268Fbe0e31b80b5a43BE27e
Sell History
2021-05-13 Wallet 0x57f unlocks 250 METIS; this is later transferred to wallet 0x6e553084d9fDf9B6DEed1E22Ede10AeED5540962
2021-10-22 Wallet 06e55 starts to sell their positions, profiting $13,357.43
2021-10-22 Wallet 06e55 starts to sell their positions, profiting $13,357.43
0x6e553084d9fDf9B6DEed1E22Ede10AeED5540962
Sell history
2021-08-27 MrBeast main wallet 0x9e6 receives 2,250 METIS
2021-08-27 Several minutes later, he transfers them to wallet 0x57f0CaB49D6E03C5463aaDc1Ad116e1E3533dd2e
This same wallet receives supply from 0x9e6 a few more times over a year period:
Wallet 0x57f then sells three different times, profiting $135,899.68
0x57f0CaB49D6E03C5463aaDc1Ad116e1E3533dd2e
Sell History
MrBeast made the most from his main wallet, profiting $457,107.47
0x9e67D018488aD636B538e4158E9e7577F2ECac12
Sell history
+--------------------------------------------------------+--------------+ | Wallet | Profit | +--------------------------------------------------------+--------------+ | 0x9e67D018488aD636B538e4158E9e7577F2ECac12 | $457,107.47 | | 0x57f0CaB49D6E03C5463aaDc1Ad116e1E3533dd2e | $135,899.68 | | 0x6e553084d9fDf9B6DEed1E22Ede10AeED5540962 | $13,357.43 | | 0x1D34645DaEA7A70d3268Fbe0e31b80b5a43BE27e | $52,678.84 | +--------------------------------------------------------+--------------+
In total, MrBeast made $659,043.42
Other Promotions
In MrBeast’s crypto history, there were projects that MrBeast had invested, and his branding was used to market their project. However, in these projects, MrBeast never sold his allocation. Here, we list a few projects where this took place.
As a disclaimer, though he may not have directly profited from these projects, these projects are often run by his network of insiders, who invested alongside him and made profits on these projects. Moreover, these projects only had a sharp decline since launch, if any fans or followers were drawn in these projects by his brand, they would have been highly likely to have lost their money.
PlayMetaGods
PlayMetaGods (MGOD) was a Play-2-Earn (P2E) crypto gaming coin pushed by people like Alex Becker, who has a long history of shady cryptocurrency activity and is a part of MrBeast’s network. PlayMetaGods was pushed by many shady crypto influencers such as CryptoBanter and Suppoman
MetaGods was pushed by CryptoBanter, who has a long, detailed history of their shady behaviour (ZachXBT thread).
Soppoman also had promoted MetaGods and is a known scammer in the crypto community (ZachXBT thread)
Suppoman pushes PlayMetaGods on his Twitter
PlayMetaGods also using MrBeast’s investment to push the marketing for their project:
MetaGods website lists MrBeast as an investor
MrBeast also follows their Twitter/X account.
Tweets where MrBeast was mentioned by @PlayMetaGods
On-chain activity
2021-12-16 MrBeast receives 121,951 MGOD tokens on his main wallet 0x9e6
2021-12-16 MrBeast sends 73,170 MGOD tokens to wallet 0x5DA8F6d7f634a62EAE21322f10762613b9ba924D
In the end, PlayMetaGods' $MGOD price went from a peak of $1.64 (CoinGecko) to $0.0008, down 99.95% from the all-time high. The project has died, and there’s no more activity on its social media.
Though MrBeast did not sell his position in MGOD, others in his circle, such as Alex Becker, undoubtedly profited from his influence. Moreover, if anyone invested in MGOD, such as MrBeast fans, they would have been highly likely to lose their money.
MetaWars
Another project was MetaWars, which MrBeast followed on their twitter
On-chain activity
2021-10-27 MrBeast receives 428,571 $WARS (MetaWars token) to his main wallet 0x9e6
Similar to the fate of PlayMetaGods, the cryptocurrency peaks at $0.63 and has declined 99.86% since. Though MrBeast has not sold any tokens, followers who were pulled into investing due to his branding/influence were highly likely to have lost money due to its sharp decline since launch.
NETWORK
You will notice familiar faces reappear throughout this document in different projects. We have identified multiple people who seemed to appear consistently throughout MrBeast’s cryptocurrency on-chain history.
Alex Becker appeared a few times in our investigation, from being a Key Advisor to PlayMetaGods, which MrBeast was invested in, to being seen at a party together with MrBeast.
Moreover, when ERN (Ethernity Chain) token launched, MrBeast had sent Alex Becker a transaction of 14,540 ERN on 8th March 2021. At the time of the transaction, that position was worth $91,670 (as per Arkham). This was when ERN was valued at around $6 right after launch, within a few weeks ERN price soared and the same position would be worth $900k a few weeks later.
KSI
KSI's history with MrBeast is detailed throughout this document, so we won’t go into detail again. In summary, they were involved in SUPER, XCAD, FINE, and STAK.
Jaggedsoft
Jaggedsoft’s name recurred throughout MrBeast’s on-chain history. We speculate that jaggedsoft was involved in handling wallets designated to farm projects, and him being given a 1% fee in exchange.
For example, from SuperVerse ($SUPER), wallets 0x4f7 and 0xED3 sold in tiny increments spanning weeks and through Uniswap. In start contrast to MrBeast’s main wallet 0x9e6 and ‘BobbieDigital’ 0x2c0 wallet which sold in larger chunks through MetaMask swaps.
In these designated farming wallets, whenever a period of farming is over or when supply is cleaned out, a 1% fee is sent to @jaggedsoft’s wallet 0x8888888888E9997E64793849389a8Faf5E8e547C
Here from 0x4f7 a SUPER farming wallet, we see 1% being sent to jaggedsoft after a long period of farming is done.
A similar thing happens in 0xED3 (another SUPER farming wallet), where a 1% cut is sent to jagggedsoft.
The same situation happens on a farming wallet for ERN, where a 1% cut is sent to jaggedsoft after farming.
Advice for Mr. Beast by us
Stop using metamask swaps; they charge 0.875% fees; we recommend https://swap.defillama.com/
Metamask is a bit outdated; most power users use Rabby wallet.
Walletguard is also a great extension to keep yourself safe from scam websites.
Download the llama extension for Twitter safety from https://defillama.com/
Contribution & appreciation
Hunter – On-chain Sleuth
played a leading role in putting together and researching this project. Writing a large part of the article, tracing and on-chain research.
Donation Address: 0x35bc3F689EC59c6737501F113D04D30D364F7d87
angelfacepeanut – Web2 Research Specialist
Angel has provided us with exceptional hard-to-find information, particularly related to the Web2 space. Whether it’s uncovering an obscure tweet or tracking down a deleted article, Angel’s expertise in search engine Dorking is unmatched. His vast knowledge of online dramas and internet culture makes him an invaluable resource for any project requiring in-depth contextual research. His unique skills and comprehensive understanding of digital footprints have greatly enriched our work.
Donation Address: 0x817ecc993fdc94f4d8f140d1a19aaa09e551b17f
SomaXBT – On-chain Sleuth
Soma has been instrumental in the research process. He conducted his own impressive investigation around the same time we initiated this project. His findings can be seen here. Beyond his own work, Soma has provided significant assistance in advancing our research, contributing valuable insights and helping us refine our approach. His expertise in on-chain analysis has been a key factor in the success of this investigation.
Donation Address: 0xB2dF3Bf2FfE652bDc71b10C49559867521603f93
Parson – Researcher
Trundle has been an invaluable support in every capacity, consistently stepping in to assist whenever needed. He provided critical help in building tools when I lacked the time and offered ongoing support with my day-to-day tasks, allowing me to concentrate on the MrBeast project. His reliability and willingness to take on additional responsibilities have been essential to the smooth progress of this work.
Donation Address 0x88e9744eDEB42373c0Ab5854031A2761671d0fd6