Papers filed in federal civil and criminal court reveal that, for all crypto’s promise of pseudonymity, it’s actually not difficult to “dox” a wallet that is trading suspiciously.Ī clue that something was wrong became public on April 12, 2022, when the prominent crypto personality Jordan Fish, better known as Cobie, tweeted: The three earned $1.1 million on at least 60 assets, according to the SEC’s civil case against them.īut all Wahi’s trades were conducted through anonymous Ethereum wallets controlled by two other people - so how did officials link Wahi to those wallets?
Wahi and two accomplices had used their advance knowledge of which new tokens Coinbase was about to add to its exchange in order to buy them ahead of the official announcement, and then sell them once the coins, inevitably, popped on the news. Coinbase product manager Ishan Wahi pleaded guilty to insider trading via wire fraud on February 7, and prosecutors have asked he be sentenced to between three or four years in prison.
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