Zion “Ansem” Thomas launched a website that facilitates crypto transactions on Monday. By Wednesday, the rollout had turned into a public dispute after a developer warned of unpatched vulnerabilities and accused Ansem of giving “zero consideration” to his developers. Ansem pushed back quickly, calling the allegations “not true” and “baseless.”
Bleep says he spent time and money building a related platform
The accusations came from a pseudonymous developer known as bleep, who said he had handled developer relations inside Ansem’s Discord server. Bleep is also building a separate project tied to Ansem’s orbit, Bullpad, which uses Ansem’s memecoin as a quote token.
According to bleep, he had “spent significant time and money building a platform that you explicitly told me you were interested in.” Ansem denied that any such agreement existed and described their communication as infrequent and informal.
Official site described as a ‘pump fun wrapper’
A day earlier, bleep had claimed, “Ansem doesn’t have a team. He has a vibe-coder. Ansem created a pump fun wrapper. That’s something anyone can do in a night.”
Ansem answered on Wednesday, saying bleep “built something on your own and have been putting out baseless accusations ever since because I didn’t give you the recognition you wanted.” He also said he does not endorse third-party platforms, including Bullpen, Bulltoshi, and Kimji.
Social media posts escalated the dispute
The argument spread more widely on Wednesday when another influencer posted, “REMOVE ALL FUNDS FROM ANSEMS LAUNCHPAD AND DISCONNECT YOUR WALLET,” while also claiming that whoever “vibecoded ansem’s launchpad in a week” was never paid. Protos said that claim was inaccurate.
Ansem also posted on X: “brother i did not tell you explicitly to build anything, you built something on your own and have been putting out baseless accusations ever since because i didnt give you the recognition you wanted i did not talk to you before you built your site, all of our back and forth is…”
Proposed Community Notes disputed part of the narrative
Proposed Community Notes on the X post challenged the “vibe-coding” line. Fact-checkers said bleep built Bullpad, not the official Ansem.io website, and that he never published any specific vulnerability.
As of Wednesday, none of those notes had received enough ratings to be shown publicly.
CoinGecko data shows ANSEM dominates the ecosystem
CoinGecko’s tracker estimates that Ansem’s memecoin, ANSEM, accounts for 94% of the ecosystem’s $100 million value. The six launchpad coins that CoinGecko tracks from ansem.io had a combined market value of just $7 million on Wednesday.
ANSEM has also lost half its value over the past month. After reaching an all-time high of $0.44 on July 6, the token closed yesterday’s session at $0.22 and remained at $0.22 today.