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The token in question is Velvet.

According to on-chain investigators, a wallet connected to the project's deployer received roughly 72 million Velvet tokens earlier this year.

Then, just days before the token collapsed, millions of dollars worth of velvet were reportedly moved from wallets linked to insiders and associated entities into centralized exchanges.

Now let's be clear.

Sending tokens to an exchange is not proof of wrongdoing.

Projects move tokens for many reasons.

Liquidity management, market making, treasury operations, partnerships, all of those can be legitimate.

But exchange wallets serve one primary purpose.

They are where selling becomes possible.

That's why experienced on-chain analysts pay attention whenever large insider-controlled wallets begin moving significant amounts of tokens during a major price rally.

In the case of Velvet, the warning signs appeared before the collapse.

While excitement was building and price action was attracting attention, wallets connected to the project were reportedly transferring large amounts of tokens to exchanges.

Shortly afterward, the token suffered a devastating decline of roughly 80%.

Whether those transfers directly caused the crash is almost beside the point.

The real lesson is that the blockchain was providing signals the entire time.

Most investors were watching the chart.

A smaller group was watching the wallets.

And those are two very different things.

Price tells you what people are feeling.

Wallet activity tells you what people are doing.

And in crypto, actions usually matter more than words.

A chart shows the past, but the blockchain often shows the future.