{"id":560703,"date":"2024-08-05T14:51:59","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T14:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insidebitcoins.com\/?p=560703"},"modified":"2024-08-05T10:34:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T10:34:36","slug":"first-neiro-on-ethereum-price-surges-154-despite-vitalik-buterin-dumping-unwanted-neiro-airdrop-as-traders-rush-to-buy-this-olympics-token-for-10x-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insidebitcoins.com\/news\/first-neiro-on-ethereum-price-surges-154-despite-vitalik-buterin-dumping-unwanted-neiro-airdrop-as-traders-rush-to-buy-this-olympics-token-for-10x-gains","title":{"rendered":"First Neiro On Ethereum Price Surges 154% Despite Vitalik Buterin Dumping Unwanted NEIRO Airdrop As Traders Rush To Buy This Olympics Token For 10X Gains"},"content":{"rendered":"

The First Neiro On Ethereum price surged 154% in the last 24 hours to trade at $0.00002574<\/a> as of 4.20 a.m. EST on trading volume that surged 243% to $8.9 million.<\/p>\n

The pump came after Ethereum’s co-founder Vitalik Buterin sold a 17 billion chunk of a NEIRO coin that was airdropped by its developer, apparently to help boost its profile.<\/p>\n

That all came amid massive confusion in the community over the identity of the coin at issue after a huge number of NEIRO tokens launched since last week.<\/p>\n

The launches came after the owner of Kabosu, the late Shiba Inu canine who birthed the Dogecoin meme coin, announced the adoption of a new Shiba Inu dog called Neiro.<\/p>\n

A Coin Telegraph article on the development was refuted by NEIRO, leaving most in the community none the wiser as to what had happened.<\/p>\n

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Severe lack of journalistic judgment from the @Cointelegraph<\/a> article.<\/p>\n

1) We did not \"attempt to gain credibility on Aug. 4, after airdropping 4% of its supply to the Ethereum co-founder to claim he was the largest holder.\" We did not airdrop anything. Those tokens were…<\/p>\n

— Neiro on Ethereum (CTO) (@neiroethcto) August 5, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n