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July 9, 2024

2016 ICO Project That Raised 820,000 Ethereum Sells $72,000,000 Worth of ETH on Crypto Exchanges: Lookonchain

By Daily Hodl Staff

A crypto project that raised 820,000 Ethereum in a 2016 initial coin offering (ICO) recently sold millions of dollars worth of ETH on a handful of exchanges, according to the digital asset tracker Lookonchain.

Golem Network (GLM) is an open-source platform that aims to enable decentralized access to computing power.

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Lookonchain notes the project raised its large ETH stack through an ICO in November 2016, when the price of ETH was only $10.20.

Lookonchain says Golem sold 24,400 ETH worth $72 million on the crypto exchanges Binance, Coinbase and Bitfinex over a three-day period. The project still holds 127,634 ETH worth more than $381 million.

With ETH trading at $2,986 at time of writing, the value of the second-largest crypto asset by market cap has skyrocketed by more than 29,174% since that ICO.

The crypto tracker also notes that whale transferred 1.1 million tokens of the decentralized finance (DeFi) project Pendle (PENDLE) worth $3.8 million to an unknown wallet on Sunday. The whale subsequently moved the altcoin stack to crypto exchange Binance where it could potentially be sold on the open market.

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The whale continues to hold 1 million PENDLE worth $3.5 million.

Lookonchain says the whale purchased 3.44 million PENDLE from centralized and decentralized exchanges between February and April 2023, at an average price of only $0.32.

PENDLE is trading at $3.42 at time of writing.

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