{"id":49173,"date":"2025-09-02T11:17:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T08:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=49173"},"modified":"2025-09-02T11:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T08:20:09","slug":"zachxbt-exposes-hundreds-of-influencers-for-undisclosed-token-promotions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/zachxbt-exposes-hundreds-of-influencers-for-undisclosed-token-promotions\/","title":{"rendered":"ZachXBT Exposes Hundreds of Influencers for Undisclosed Token Promotions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On-chain sleuth ZachXBT has unveiled evidence of undisclosed promotions by crypto influencers. He released a publicly accessible spreadsheet containing data on over 200 opinion leaders who were contacted for token promotion.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW LEAK: Price sheet of 200+ crypto influencers and their wallet addresses from a project they were recently contacted by to promote. <\/p>\n<p>From 160+ accounts who accepted the deal I only saw <5 accounts actually disclose the promotional posts as an advertisement. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Kph9dUvDxB\">pic.twitter.com\/Kph9dUvDxB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ZachXBT (@zachxbt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zachxbt\/status\/1962485396597776468?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 1, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to him, of the approximately 160 influencers who accepted the deal, fewer than five labeled their posts as advertisements.<\/p>\n<p>The publication lists prices per post, ranging from hundreds to tens of thousands of dollars. It also includes Solana wallet addresses for payment and links to on-chain transactions.<\/p>\n<p>Undisclosed advertising remains a persistent issue in the crypto industry. In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/system\/files\/documents\/plain-language\/1001a-influencer-guide-508_1.pdf\">requires<\/a> influencers to clearly disclose their connections to promoted projects. The absence of such information misleads investors and may lead to regulatory scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>Back in August, ZachXBT <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-investor-defrauded-of-91-million\">reported<\/a> that a user lost 783 BTC (~$91 million) due to a social engineering attack.<\/p>\n<p>Later, the researcher <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/zachxbt-labels-ripple-cardano-and-hedera-as-insider-enrichment-schemes\">compared<\/a> the operational models of Ripple, Cardano, and Hedera to a financial pyramid scheme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On-chain sleuth ZachXBT has unveiled evidence of undisclosed promotions by crypto influencers. He released a publicly accessible spreadsheet containing data on over 200 opinion leaders who were contacted for token promotion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"ZachXBT reveals crypto influencers' undisclosed promotions.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1323,596],"class_list":["post-49173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-investigations","tag-tokens"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"341","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"ZachXBT reveals crypto influencers' undisclosed promotions.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49175,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49173\/revisions\/49175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}