Crypto Beast
Summary
Crypto Beast is the online handle of Chris Woytko (@cryptobeastreal), a crypto influencer with approximately 800,000 X followers who has been publicly exposed by on-chain investigator ZachXBT for allegedly orchestrating a pump-and-dump scheme on the $ALT (Altcoin Fun) token in July 2025. According to ZachXBT's on-chain analysis, 45 linked wallets coordinated an $11 million dump on July 14, 2025, collapsing the token from a $190 million market cap to approximately $3 million within hours. ZachXBT also documented an alleged pattern of similar bundled rug-pull operations across at least six prior tokens ($ALPHA, $RICH, $YE, $RUG, $ACE, $JOHN). No confirmed legal or regulatory action had been filed as of the time of research.
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Timeline(8 events)
2025-07-07
Sniper wallets allegedly linked to Crypto Beast began accumulating $ALT at approximately 10:30 UTC, obtaining a majority of the circulating supply in under 20 minutes.
ZachXBT via Mitrade2025-07-09
$ALT (Altcoin Fun) launched on Solana at approximately $0.018. Crypto Beast began promoting the token aggressively on X and Telegram.
Cryptopolitan2025-07-13
$ALT reached its all-time high price of $0.1976, with market capitalization at approximately $190 million, following heavy KOL promotion.
CoinMarketCap2025-07-14
$ALT collapsed 97% from $0.19 to approximately $0.003 between 9:00–10:00 AM UTC. Forty-five wallets allegedly linked to Crypto Beast simultaneously dumped over $11 million in ALT tokens. Market cap fell from approximately $190 million to $3 million.
ZachXBT via Cryptopolitan2025-07-14
Following the crash, Crypto Beast publicly denied involvement on X, attributing the collapse to whale snipers while deleting all promotional posts related to $ALT.
Cryptopolitan2025-07-22
ZachXBT published an on-chain investigation on X tracing the 45-wallet cluster to a single Celestia address linked to Crypto Beast's known Solana wallet, and documenting an alleged pattern of prior bundled rug operations ($ALPHA, $RICH, $YE, $RUG, $ACE, $JOHN).
BeInCrypto2025-07-22
Crypto Beast deactivated his @cryptobeastreal X account almost immediately after ZachXBT published the investigation.
CryptoNews2025-08-06
Crypto Beast reactivated the X account and changed the handle from @cryptobeastreal to @realcryptoelio, documented by ZachXBT in a follow-up post.
ZachXBT on X / PANewsDecision Log
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This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain and source URLs are archived via the Internet Archive.
model: claude-sonnet-4-6
generated: 6/2/2026, 8:57:00 PM
last updated: 6/2/2026, 9:24:55 PM
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