On-chain investigation: Ascend associated addresses hold 3.2% of the MONTRA supply

On November 10, 2026, an on-chain investigation reported that the Elysium issuance platform Ascend associated address transferred approximately $140,000 through two privacy pools into three new wallets, and purchased shortly after MONTRA went live. The tokens were sent to the same FOMO wallet, which holds 32,014,541 tokens, accounting for about 3.2% of the supply, and this wallet has no purchase records. MONTRA is the platform token of the Elysium issuance platform Montra, which went live at 00:36 UTC on that day. Ascend co-founder is CryptoTomYT.

Route A deposited 40,000 USDC into the Privacy Cash on Solana on November 10, and withdrew an equivalent amount 47 seconds later, exchanging it for 530.57 HYPE, then purchased 6,846,772 tokens and transferred them out. Route B deposited 100,328.25 USDC into the Base privacy pool on November 9 and withdrew an equivalent amount within the same hour. Two new wallets from Route B purchased approximately 25.6 million tokens within about 5 minutes of going live, with launch fees up to 23.2%.

The investigation stated that Route A's deposit wallet previously received 27.7 SOL from ethanhates.sol and transferred approximately $66,200 to an address claimed by CryptoTomYT. The first funds for Route B came from an Arkham labeled FOMO account as analyzationz. The remaining 10 new wallets that transferred funds within the same hour, combined with the aforementioned buyers, hold a total of 25.8% of the LAUNCHPAD supply.