Meet the trader who turned $100M to $900 and then begged his followers for SOL in a memecoin presale

James Wynn (Holder of the largest BTC long in history):

1. called PEPE early when it was still under $1M market cap

2. turned roughly $7k into over $25M on that single trade

3)blew up online as the guy who called PEPE early

4. discovered Hyperliquid and started taking massive leveraged bets

5. opened the largest BTC long in crypto history ($1.26 billion notional at 40x leverage), which made him even more famous

6. sat on tens of millions in unrealized gains at peak

7. then the brutal liquidation spree hit

8. got liquidated 6 times in just two weeks (March–April 2026)

9. lost over $85–100 million in total

10. account balance dropped from nine figures all the way down to ~$900

11. launches $ASSDAQ memecoin presale asking followers to donate SOL for up to 50% of supply

12. raises "only" $12k+ from 250+ wallets

13. accused of self-allocating a huge chunk (53% of supply) and preparing to rug

14. deletes all tweets about the presale when backlash explodes

15. community (including ZachXBT and on-chain sleuths) calls him a serial scammer with a history of pump and dump soft rugs

Wynn went from zero to hero back to zero really quickly..