Ashcrypto accused of ROYA pump-and-dump

On-chain investigator ZachXBT posted transaction records and screenshots accusing crypto influencer Ashcrypto of running a pump-and-dump around the ROYA token. The published material includes on-chain traces and messages from a paid WhatsApp channel where the influencer is identified as AshWSB.

The posts show Ashcrypto made a public call for ROYA, the native token of Royale Finance, on a centralized exchange. Within hours the investigator published a private channel message quoting his team as “holding 100% of our roya + buying more here” and another private message reading “who the f is selling like this.” The on-chain records in the posts indicate significant sells from addresses linked to the influencer during the same period.

ZachXBT alleged similar patterns have occurred with other low-liquidity alt tokens listed on centralized exchanges, where relatively small orders can move prices. The investigator highlighted an earlier 2026 case involving the RAVE token, which he alleges was controlled by a group holding more than 90% of circulating supply and experienced a roughly 6,000% surge followed by a 95% collapse that erased about $6 billion in roughly 48 hours. That RAVE reporting prompted probes by major exchanges.

The investigator also published an alert about a May filing by a U.S. law firm seeking to seize $71 million in frozen ether tied to the April KelpDAO exploit, citing use of an older legal judgment to advance the firm’s claims.

Ashcrypto did not respond to requests for comment and had not publicly addressed the allegations at the time the material was shared. No exchange or regulator had announced enforcement action directly linked to the ROYA claims as of the investigator’s posts.

The posts and on-chain traces published by ZachXBT form the basis of the accusation and document the overlap between public social-media calls, private channel messages and on-chain trading activity in low-liquidity markets.