Synapse Liquidity Provider Abruptly Dumps 9 Million SYN Tokens, Price Plunges...
Cross-chain bridge Synapse has seen the value of its native token SYN plummet after a liquidity provider (LP) dumped all their tokens. According to data from CoinGecko, the token’s price declined by nearly 25% a few hours after the sell-off. On Tuesday, 5th of August, Synapse Labs announced – via a post on X (formerly Twitter) – that one of the liquidity providers sold their SYN tokens and removed liquidity from the Synapse protocol. Lookonchain reported a whale dumping 9 million SYN tokens an hour after this disclosure. According to the on-chain analytics platform, the whale....
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