Odaily's Planet Daily reported that Hunter Biden released the first forensics report on laptop Meme coins issued by Groom Lake on Wednesday, and named an anonymous market maker who criticized the participation in the issuance, saying that “market makers who screwed up the issuance should buy all the tokens back and destroy them.”
A wallet that may be controlled by Market Maker 1 received $500,000 before launch, but only invested about $5,200 at launch, or about 1%, according to the report. All liquidity providers together have invested less than 30,000 laptop tokens into the primary pool, equivalent to only about 0.003% of the initial 1 billion supply.
Extremely low initial liquidity makes laptop prices extremely susceptible to being driven by small transactions. The report said a single $6 buy could push the offer up by about 5%, overlaid by high-frequency early trading and liquidity changes, leading to sharp price swings on the day of the launch.
Biden said that “the biggest winner in this offering is the market maker.” The report further adds to previous explanations for the failure of the starter. Last month, the project party attributed the price anomaly mainly to sniper robots and lack of liquidity.
It is worth noting that as of October 7, the 300 million founder tokens held by the project side have still not been transferred. The core of the current controversy still focuses on the initial execution of market makers, liquidity allocation, and whether they derive improper returns from sharp fluctuations.