A few days ago, news broke that Zerebro developer Jeff Yu had died, but it didn't gain widespread attention until today. Related live stream videos and suicide notes are being circulated in the community, and many are mourning this outstanding young engineer. The meme coin LLJEFFY that he issued before his death has also become the main subject of speculation in the market today, with a trading volume of 72 million dollars in the past 24 hours.
However, sharp-eyed netizens have noticed that Jeff Yu's Github account has been set to hide private repositories today, and shortly after that, he deleted the git history, which seems to suggest that Jeff Yu is not actually dead. Following the news, the related meme coin plummeted from a high of 0.3 dollars to 0.06 dollars.
Additionally, netizens have discovered that addresses suspected to belong to Jeff Yu have been continuously dumping the meme coin LLJEFFY and using the proceeds from the sale to repurchase and burn LLJEFFY.
I've just noticed that one of Jeffy Yu's addresses is dumping $ZEREBRO, then sending USDC to the HTX exchange, and then that money is coming to Jeffy's address that created $LLJeffy.G5sjgjPdFdoz7hRa49yDobeSdqMooCmDwsCUERqLTfyr (the creator of LLJeffy) then buys that token and… https://t.co/f70vLp4HLw pic.twitter.com/LQWZUdyN3l
— Vee (@RepeatAfterVee) May 6, 2025
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