Sahil Arora's pump.fun claims, checked on chain

The short answer

Two different things are in these claims. One is a coin from October 2026 that anyone can read on chain. The other is a set of private chats from 2024, which no blockchain holds.

On the coin, the claim is half right. 79% of KIMCHI did go to one wallet at launch. But that wallet created the coin, it is more than two years old, and it passed 75% to the wallet named Kimchi within a minute. What the chain shows is the coin's own creator taking most of the supply in the creating transaction and handing it on, not an outsider getting in first.

On the chats, a blockchain can only test what would have left a trace. If people close to pump.fun had bought the 2024 celebrity coins early with money that can be followed, they would be among the buyers. They are not. That narrows the claim without settling it.

What was claimed

The claims come in two posts. Sahil Arora's own post of November 12, 2026 says he messaged pump.fun's co-founder Alon Cohen on Telegram on May 26, 2024, sent him the address of the Rich The Kid coin before the rapper posted it, and that over about twenty celebrity coins Mr. Cohen held positions or got others in, directly or indirectly. It carries two screenshots of a chat with a contact shown as “Alon”.

A summary posted the same day calls it his “@Pumpfun file” and lists more: paid promoters, callers who buy before they post, and the KIMCHI coin. That summary says itself that none of it is proven yet.

Sahil Arora is the promoter that press and on-chain investigators tie to those 2024 celebrity coins, as our earlier report describes, and Ansem has denied his earlier claims. Sahil Files, a site he promotes, lists the new post among his claims. We report all of it as claims.

The Kimchi launch, replayed

Kimchi is a trader pump.fun brought onto its app, as SolanaFloor reported; the same article says he holds about 75% of the coin. The coin is this one. From its creation to the creating wallet's last sell, its launch took 101 seconds. Here they are, one by one.

The same day, from the start. All times are UTC on October 20, 2026.

• 03:48. The wallet that will create the coin, EFSr…56oF, receives 110.2 SOL from a wallet Solscan labels “Binance 2”. It is not a new wallet: its first transaction is from August 7, 2024, and it had 10,170 transactions when we read it. Solscan shows its pump.fun profile name as “hotseal68367”.
• 22:30. The wallet whose pump.fun profile reads “Kimchi”, Gs5F…GYeX, appears on chain for the first time, 30 minutes before the coin exists. By 23:38 it has received 1.35 billion PUMP in 4 withdrawals from wallets Solscan labels as Binance and OKX hot wallets.
• 23:00:15. The first wallet creates the coin and, in the same transaction, buys 793,086,957 of it: 79.31% of the supply for 85.66 SOL. That one buy fills the launch curve, so nobody else could buy on it.
• 23:01:12, 57 seconds later. It sends 750,000,000 coins, 75% of the supply, to the “Kimchi” wallet.
• 23:01:20 to 23:01:56. It sells the other 4.31% in 12 sells.
• 23:01:32. pump.fun's X account posts pictures of a billboard that reads “be the next kimchi”, 77 seconds after the coin was created. Copies of the coin that link that post appear in our records from 23:01:40.

Where the coins and the fees went

The wallet named Kimchi held 750,062,915 coins when we read it on November 13: what it was sent, and a little more. Some of the coin's supply has been burned since launch, so those coins are 75.33% of the 995,683,639 that exist today.

The coin's creator fees are set on chain too. Its fee account, which belongs to pump.fun's fee program, lists one receiver with a 100% share: the “Kimchi” wallet. It had been paid 452.43 SOL by November 13.

101 seconds, 12 sells

The creating wallet spent 86.98 SOL to create the coin and buy 79.31% of it. Eight seconds after sending 75% on, it began to sell what it had kept.

In 36 seconds the wallet received 344.14 SOL for 4.31% of the supply. 145.05 SOL of that came from the 2 sells made before pump.fun's post went up.

So, was it a sniper?

No. A sniper buys a coin that someone else has just created. Here the buyer is the wallet that created the coin, and the buy is inside the creating transaction itself.

“Hours old” fits the receiving wallet, which was 30 minutes old. It does not fit the creating wallet. The Defiant's headline puts that wallet at three hours old; on chain its first transaction is from August 7, 2024.

Neither wallet is among the wallets that pump.fun's payments wallet paid or funded. The chain does not say who holds the creating wallet's key, or what was agreed between its owner, Kimchi and pump.fun. An exchange hot wallet serves every customer, so the Binance and OKX withdrawals tie no one.

This describes one launch. Pattern analysis, not financial advice. Similar coins can behave differently.

The 2024 coins: who bought first

A chat cannot be checked on a blockchain. Who bought, and when, can. So we read every transaction on the launch curves of the two coins his post names.

The Caitlyn Jenner coin was created at 19:49:45 UTC on May 26, 2024 and left its curve 22 minutes 5 seconds later; 83 wallets bought on the curve. The Rich The Kid coin was created at 22:12:25 and left its curve after 5 minutes 31 seconds; 68 wallets bought on it.

We compared every one of those buyers with every address our payments report ties to pump.fun: the payments wallet, every wallet it paid or sent SOL to, the wallets that pay on and everyone they paid, the vault, the multisigs and their member keys, and pump.fun's own fee accounts, 1,490 addresses in all. None of them bought either coin on its curve. The only one that appears at all is the account Solscan labels “Pump.fun: Migration”, which at the time took each coin's pool share when its curve filled.

So who bought first? In the two minutes after each coin was created, 4 wallets bought the Jenner coin and 9 the Rich The Kid coin, the creators aside.

Most are busy wallets with thousands of transactions. Three were new that day:

• C1kF…9cjS was first funded 30 minutes before the Jenner coin was created. It began buying 34 seconds after the coin's creation and took 5.92% on the curve. It later sent 47 SOL to the address the investigator Roxo published as Sahil Arora's main address.
• FgM5…ZaGr was first funded 9 minutes before the Rich The Kid coin was created. It began buying 51 seconds after the coin's creation and took 5.33% on the curve. It sent 20 SOL to the same address within the hour.
• Ccoi…X2YM was first funded 25 minutes before the Jenner coin was created. It began buying each coin within two minutes of its creation and took 6.74% and 4.52% on the curves. It spent 4.41 SOL on the two and sold them for 102.47 SOL. We found no transfer between it and that main address.

All three got their first SOL, between 2.29 and 2.99, from the hot wallet Solscan labels “Binance 2”. So did the two wallets that created the coins, 31 and 17 minutes before their launches. A hot wallet serves every customer of an exchange, so the shared source proves nothing by itself. The main address itself bought 5.03% of the Jenner coin 4 minutes 13 seconds after creation and 9.64% of the Rich The Kid coin after 2 minutes 13 seconds.

So the prepared, early buying the chain shows was done by wallets set up the way the launch's own wallets were, and two of the three sent SOL to the address published as Sahil Arora's main. None of it leads to pump.fun.

That does not settle the claim. We found no wallet that a public source ties to Mr. Cohen, and someone told early could buy through a wallet that leaves no trace back. It narrows it: none of the wallets that bought these two coins on their curves is one that pump.fun's own money can be followed to.

The screenshots' clock times

His post carries two screenshots. In the first, dated May 26, 2024, the first message shown is stamped 7:41 PM and announces the Jenner launch for that day; a later one, at 9:51 PM, says it will show in three hours. In the second, which shows no date, the contact asks at 3:36 AM for the Rich The Kid coin's address early, before the tweet.

The screenshots show no time zone, and the chain keeps UTC. Two clocks are worth trying: one four hours ahead of UTC, which matches his post, where the launch comes about four hours after the first message; and one five and a half hours ahead, the nearest time zone that would put the request before the coin existed.

On the first clock, the first message comes 4 hours 9 minutes before the Jenner coin was created, close to the four hours of his post, but the request for the Rich The Kid address comes 84 minutes after that coin was created. On the second, the request comes 6 minutes before the coin was created, and the first message 5 hours 39 minutes before the Jenner coin.

We cannot tell which clock the phone was on, and a screenshot is not a chain record. The chain can only say that both readings are possible, and that they do not say the same thing.

What cannot be checked

• What was said in a chat, and by whom. A screenshot can be real, cropped or edited. A blockchain cannot tell.
• Retainers, badges and cash for promoters. Our payments report shows the payments and their rhythm, not what they were for.
• Callers buying from side wallets before they post. Our test covers wallets funded directly. A side wallet funded elsewhere would not show.
• Whose wallets the unnamed early buyers are. A wallet funded from an exchange carries no name.
• The other 2024 coins. His post speaks of about twenty. We read the two it names.

If he publishes transactions or wallet addresses, they can be read like everything else on this page, and we will read them.

Questions people ask

How we read it

1. 1.Sahil Arora's post on X. November 12, 2026; his claims, unverified
2. 2.A summary of his claims on X. November 12, 2026
3. 3.Sahil Files. a site he promotes, which lists his claims
4. 4.The KIMCHI coin on Solscan
5. 5.The KIMCHI coin's creating transaction
6. 6.The transfer of 750,000,000 coins to the wallet named Kimchi
7. 7.pump.fun's post on X. 23:01:32 UTC, October 20, 2026
8. 8.SolanaFloor on Kimchi joining pump.fun's app
9. 9.The Defiant on the KIMCHI coin. headline and summary read; its text did not load
10. 10.Anceta, “pump.fun's payments wallet”. the addresses tied to pump.fun come from this report
11. 11.Anceta, on Ansem, Sahil Arora and the 129 SOL receipt. the 2024 celebrity coins and the address published as his main