Brooks Bauer (Axiom Exchange Insider Trading)

Summary

Brooks Bauer (also reported as "Broox" Bauer), a New York-based senior business development employee at Solana-based trading platform Axiom Exchange, was publicly identified by blockchain investigator ZachXBT in a February 26, 2026 report as the alleged central figure in an insider trading and customer-data-abuse scheme. Bauer allegedly used unrestricted internal Axiom dashboards to look up private user wallet data and shared it with associates to front-run or trade ahead of prominent traders' positions over a period of roughly ten months; ZachXBT estimated associated profits at approximately $400,000, though the report itself cautioned that establishing high-confidence individual insider-trading instances from on-chain data alone is difficult. No criminal charges, regulatory action, or civil lawsuit against Bauer has been identified as of this writing; all allegations originate from a single independent investigator's report, corroborated in part by leaked audio/screenshots and amplified by crypto trade press.