#kimchi Rumored to have made $40 million on TRUMP, who exactly is “Kimchi Bro”? 💰👀
A young guy has recently become a sensation in crypto circles. He never adds captions to his photos: he’s either on a private jet or showing off luxury cars, watches, and Hermès. A single photo gets tens of millions of views, and even rapper Gunna has reposted his photos.
His name is Clayton Kim, and people in the scene call him “Kimchi.”
His story sounds like a rags-to-riches fantasy. Reportedly, he had only a few hundred dollars as recently as April 2024.
He started out trading meme coins on Solana, taking a heavy loss on POPCAT. Later, he switched to short-term trading, putting in 15 hours a day, seven days a week.
In January 2025, $TRUMP launched, and rumors began circulating that he made around $40 million from the boom. Since then, he has stopped sharing his wallets and trading records publicly. All that’s left on his social media are photos of his lavish lifestyle.
But there’s a catch: to this day, there’s no evidence that he made those $40 million. Blockchain transactions are public, and a profit that large could generally be traced to specific wallets. Yet blockchain analysts still haven’t found any wallets linked to him. Some on-chain investigations suggest that his wallets mainly used automated sniping and short-term arbitrage on various low-cap meme coins, rather than making a fortune from one big trade.
This week, Pump.fun announced that he had become a creative advisor to the platform and even put up street ads saying, “Be the next Kimchi.” Around the same time, a token with the same name, $KIMCHI, launched. Within an hour, its market cap surged to $45 million, and his wallet showed unrealized gains of more than $25 million.
But on-chain data shows that as soon as the token launched, 75% of its total supply was transferred into his wallet, and all the trading fees went to him as well.
So, is Kimchi really a millionaire? He has probably made money, and his lavish lifestyle is real. But the “$40 million” story remains unproven, and $KIMCHI looks more like a carefully packaged marketing stunt.