{"id":49998,"date":"2025-09-29T10:01:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T10:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=49998"},"modified":"2025-09-29T10:01:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T10:01:39","slug":"ethereum-co-founder-vitalik-buterin-dumps-memecoin-holdings-he-received-for-free-crypto-community-left-wondering-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=49998","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin Dumps Memecoin Holdings He Received For Free, Crypto Community Left Wondering Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Vitalik Buterin<\/strong>, the co-founder of <strong>Ethereum <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/eth\/usd\">ETH<\/a>), sold memecoins he got for free on Sunday, sparking a bit of intrigue in the cryptocurrency community.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Buterin Has Crypto World Guessing<\/h2>\n<p>The influential cryptocurrency entrepreneur swapped 150 billion <strong>I love puppies <\/strong>(PUPPIES) for 28.65 ETH, worth $117,635, and 1 billion <strong>ERC20 <\/strong>tokens for $13,900 in <strong>USDC<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/\">USDC<\/a>) stablecoin, according to Lookonchain.<\/p>\n<p>The motive of the transfer was not immediately clear. Buterin didn&#8217;t immediately respond to Benzinga&#8217;s request for comment on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Though the sale amount was modest, Buterin&#8217;s actions, particularly in handling the memecoins he was gifted, have always &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/09\/47910389\/ethereum-co-founder-vitalik-buterin-dumps-memecoin-holdings-he-received-for-free-crypto-com\" alt=\"Ethereum\" co-founder vitalik buterin dumps memecoin holdings he received for free crypto community left wondering why>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH), sold memecoins he got for free on Sunday, sparking a bit of intrigue in the cryptocurrency community. Buterin Has Crypto World Guessing The influential cryptocurrency entrepreneur swapped 150 billion I love puppies (PUPPIES) for 28.65 ETH, worth $117,635, and 1 billion ERC20 tokens for $13,900 in USDC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-49998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}