Along with the initial purchase, Kled AI pledged to continuously repurchase tokens from the market as part of a $500,000 buyback plan.
Wenzel claims that wallets Ejc28…1ax15 and FopPe…d3UMR have a relation with the team behind KLED.
Ejc28 received 30 million KLED and divided it amongst 56 wallets. However, only 27 of them received $10,000 or more.
At the same time, FopPe received 28.25 million KLED and divided the amount among 41 wallets. As it happened with Ejc28, only 19 wallets received significant amounts of $6,000 or more.
The 46 wallets that received relevant amounts of KLED then started swapping the amounts for Solana (SOL). Crossing the token sales with KLED’s price chart showed that the average correction during sales ranged between 2% and 3%.
After converting the amounts, another batch of swaps occurred, converting most of the KLED tokens into USDC.
The process occurred between June 2 and June 12.
Patel confirmed the divestment in direct messages later published by Wenzel. He wrote that “we had a ton of expenses” tied to aggressive 100-day milestones and claimed the team “sold on buys so the market didn’t get hurt.”
Patel also said Believe co-founder Ben Pasternak “suggested we just smartly liquidate,” a point Pasternak allegedly denied in private messages sent to Wenzel.
Despite addressing the token movements after Wenzel brought the matter to public scrutiny, neither Patel nor the Kled AI team communicated with the community about the token movement.
Furthermore, the amount converted to USDC represents approximately 3% of KLED’s diluted supply, which is sufficient to impact the prices significantly.
As of press time, KLED is up by nearly 30% in the past 24 hours, priced at $0.031.
As of June 13, the following wallets held approximately $480,000 in USDC, converted from the 58.25 million KLED:
Notably, Chfnh’s wallet still held roughly $65,000 worth of KLED, raising the hold amount to $545,000.
Furthermore, 25 wallets had their $221,000 worth of USDC balances transferred to two different addresses associated with ChangeNOW. Considering that ChangeNOW is an exchange service, these movements were potentially withdrawals to fiat currencies.
The buyback wallet holds only $208 worth of SOL as of press time.
Token buybacks are often marketed as the crypto analogue of corporate share repurchases, and have divided market observers.
Supporters call these mechanisms “flywheels,” but skeptics warn that the ever-present bid can also veil insider offloads unless treasury flows stay fully transparent.
Critics counter that projects with sizable pre-mines can sell into their own bid, turning buybacks into exit liquidity rather than genuine yield.
Regulators have yet to address token buybacks directly, but legal analysts warn that nondisclosure of insider selling could invite enforcement actions analogous to those in equity market insider-trading cases.
Contacted by CryptoSlate, Ben Pasternak and Avi Patel have not responded before publication time.
