The $LAB Pump-and-Dump Circus: CEX-Endorsed “Crime Season” Where Retail Is Always the Final Exit Liquidity
Yesterday, $LAB ballooned to a $12 billion FDV while bleeding -1% hourly funding rates just to keep the long side alive. “CEXs just love backing this kind of crime,” @thedefivillain wrote, calling it straight-up “RAVE 2.0” — a textbook team-controlled, exchange-fueled pump-and-dump spectacle. In just days the price crashed from $24.4 to $5.7, then violently ripped back to ~$15, treating longs and shorts like marionettes. The KOL chorus on Twitter has already ripped the mask off, yet retail FOMO still outruns common sense.
The facts are brutal. ZachXBT dropped a detailed exposé back in mid-May: the team/insiders control over 95% of supply, with private loans, unilateral vesting changes, market-maker coordination, and unknown floats — all engineered for one purpose: “retail extraction.” He called it the complete embodiment of crypto’s ugliest “retail harvest” meta right now. AltcoinAce was even harsher: “$LAB is crime and everyone knows it. Binance, Bybit, Bitget are all happily pushing perps on a coin that’s 98% insider-controlled.” And the exchanges? They just keep collecting fees while the team dumps at the top and retail piles in as liquidity.
Chinese KOLs were even more unfiltered. @tangtanglovebtc put it perfectly: “Coins like this are just an open casino where the house sees every card and every chip. It’s an asymmetric bet — the house always wins, and at best you’re just fighting other gamblers for scraps.” @Young852560 posted charts with the caption: “Ultra-concentrated supply letting them jerk us around like monkeys… another liquidity bloodbath incoming?” @btceth1999 simply called the 24U-to-5.7U plunge “genocidal price action.” Even regular traders are screaming “crime season” — this isn’t an isolated case; it’s the recurring script of this bull market.
The darkest irony? @thedefivillain had already warned about this exact “massive spike” back in late April, only to later admit he thought the show was over. Now, even after the violent rebound, funding rates are still absurdly negative (24% daily decay), functioning purely as a mechanism to bleed longs dry and give the team a safe exit. With the August unlock window looming, insiders don’t even need OTC hedging — they already sold. @InternxWeb23 summed up the playbook best: squeeze shorts first, lure in fresh longs, then use late buyers as exit liquidity. Same template, new ticker.
$LAB is not some “innovative trading terminal.” It is a classic pump-and-dump wearing a DeFi costume, jointly executed by the team and CEXs to harvest retail. No matter how many features the product claims, 95%+ insider control, violent price manipulation, and deeply negative funding rates are louder than any whitepaper. The KOLs — ZachXBT, thedefivillain, AltcoinAce and others — have already torn the lid off. Only two kinds of people remain: degenerate gamblers who know it’s rigged but want one last spin, and naive bagholders who still believe “this time is different.”
Crypto has never lacked narratives. What it lacks is respect. $LAB’s pump-and-dump has laid bare the raw logic of “house always wins”: you think you’re trading the trend, but you’re really just paying the team’s exit fees and providing CEX liquidity. Wake up, brothers. Stop mistaking “high FDV + violent swings” for alpha. The only certainty here is that the last ones rushing in will be the ones crying hardest.
The $LAB show will keep running, but next time don’t say nobody warned you.
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It's almost been a year now since taking the $CARDS trade.
I've always kept $CARDS in the background to see when it'd find its pico bottom (took quite sometime) and rebound back up (as it should). I'm a fan of the hobby (TCG - Pokemon) and still fascinated of how @Collector_Crypt has structured themselves to become this successful and expanding much further.
I've repositioned accordingly through the last few days and think that time is set. FDV is about 365m~ and 47m~ circ mcap currently.
The thesis still stands and I believe that the "trencher money" upon its launch redistro'd with believers of the company + TCG enthusiasts + trade opportunists.
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I believe $Worldcup to go to 50M MC in few months time
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$Worldcup holding strong before the actual World Cup event begins should tell you how bullish this is.
Biggest sporting event on earth, billions watching, normie attention guaranteed and CT still sleeping on this.
See y’all at 100m MC soon.
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