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Wallets linked to Tron founder Justin Sun now control more than 7.2 trillion PEPE tokens, a position valued at close to $51.25 million and equal to about 2.82% of the memecoin’s total supply, according to Cointribune, citing on-chain tracking by Arkham Intelligence.
The accumulation was traced over roughly ten days, with large transfers routed through crypto exchanges into addresses identified as Sun’s. That concentration makes him the biggest individual holder of PEPE, a token that has no central issuer and whose price rests largely on trading flows.
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Key facts
- Sun’s PEPE position exceeds 7.2 trillion tokens.
- The holding is worth approximately $51.25 million.
- It represents about 2.82% of total PEPE supply, the largest single-holder stake identified.
- PEPE gained 3.34% in one hour, moving toward about $0.00000452, as the Arkham data circulated.
- The flows that built the position passed through exchange platforms over about ten days.
A bottom signal for a memecoin in pullback
Before the disclosure, PEPE was in a technical pullback near a support zone. The appearance of the Arkham figures drew buyers back and produced the one-hour price gain Cointribune recorded. Market analyst Shaun Analysis, posting on X, described the token as waking up after hitting a bottom and bouncing, with buyers returning and the direction bullish.
That reaction illustrates how closely memecoin traders track the wallets of large holders. For a token with no cash flows or governance structure, a whale’s public position can function as a signal in itself, and the speed of the response suggests traders treated the accumulation as confirmation rather than coincidence.
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Concentration risk meets regulated products
The disclosure lands while regulated vehicles for alternative digital assets are being built. Cointribune notes that managers have obtained approvals from stock market authorities for index products, including filings by Canary Capital around a Tron (TRXS) fund. Prospectuses for such products routinely flag concentration risk, and a single entity holding nearly 3% of a memecoin’s supply is a concrete example of that warning.
For PEPE holders, the immediate practical effect is that price stability now depends heavily on one participant’s decisions. Sun’s record as a high-profile accumulator of tokens adds visibility, but it also means any large transfer out of his addresses could weigh on liquidity in ways ordinary holders cannot anticipate from public data alone.
Why it matters
A whale of this size changes the trading profile of a memecoin: liquidity leaves circulation, volatility concentrates around one holder’s moves, and market participants price in the risk that the position is sold. It also gives exchange-traded product issuers and their regulators a real-world case for the concentration disclosures already written into their filings. Compared with a market where holdings are dispersed, a single stake of this scale tilts the balance of influence decisively.
What to watch
The next signal is whether Sun’s identified addresses move any of the 7.2 trillion tokens, since a transfer to an exchange would be visible to the same Arkham tools that revealed the position. Continued progress on the Tron-linked fund filings is the other thread to follow.
This article reports on-chain data and market reaction; it is not financial advice, and memecoin prices can move sharply in either direction.
Reported by cointribune.com.
Source: Cointribune