Ansem’s new crypto site draws developer backlash over ‘vibe-coded’ claims and alleged vulnerabilities

Crypto influencer Zion “Ansem” Thomas launched a website that facilitates crypto transactions on Monday, but the rollout was quickly overshadowed by a public dispute with a pseudonymous developer known as bleep. By Wednesday, bleep was alleging that the site had unpatched vulnerabilities and accusing Ansem of giving “zero consideration” to developers. Ansem rejected those claims, calling them “not true” and “baseless,” and denied that he had ever made any agreement for bleep to build a platform on his behalf. The dispute widened on social media as bleep described the official product as little more than a “pump fun wrapper” created by a “vibe-coder,” while another influencer urged users to remove funds from Ansem’s launchpad and disconnect their wallets. Proposed Community Notes pushed back on parts of that narrative, saying bleep built Bullpad rather than the official Ansem.io website and had not published any specific vulnerability details. Those notes had not received enough ratings to appear publicly as of Wednesday. CoinGecko data cited by Protos also shows a sharp imbalance inside the ecosystem: ANSEM accounts for 94% of the ecosystem’s estimated $100 million value, while the six launchpad coins tracked from ansem.io were worth a combined $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 and closing yesterday at $0.22, where it remained today.