Baller Ape Club
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Baller Ape Club was a Solana-based NFT project that launched on October 1, 2021, and immediately executed a rug pull, stealing approximately $2.6 million from investors. The project's operator, Le Anh Tuan, a 26-year-old Vietnamese national, was charged by the U.S. Department of Justice on June 30, 2022, with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit international money laundering — representing the largest NFT fraud case charged by federal prosecutors at the time.
Connected Entities
3 entities · 60 linked investigations- Baller Ape Club→mentioned with→Frosties NFT(80%)
- Baller Ape Club→mentioned with→Solana(80%)
Connected Through
2 shared actors · 359 investigationsDistinct actors this investigation shares with others — holders, traders, and named parties. Shared infrastructure (exchanges, pools) is excluded.
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- □Frosties NFTorganizationalso in
Timeline(4 events)
October 2021
Baller Ape Club NFT mint launched on Solana at 2 SOL per NFT; operators immediately executed a rug pull, stealing approximately $2.6 million and deleting all social media accounts and the project website.
Web3 Is Going Great; TRM Labs; DOJ indictment11 January 2022
The same group of developers allegedly executed a third rug pull under the name 'Big Daddy Ape Club,' stealing approximately $1.2 million shortly after its mint.
Web3 Is Going Great30 June 2022
U.S. Department of Justice, through the Central District of California and HSI Baltimore, announced criminal charges against Le Anh Tuan for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit international money laundering in connection with the Baller Ape Club scheme.
U.S. Department of Justice press release5 July 2022
Media and legal commentary describe the Baller Ape Club indictment as the second-ever federal criminal prosecution of an NFT rug pull and the largest by dollar amount charged to date.
NouNFT; Decrypt; CoinGeekDecision Log
- slot 423425406 · hash 3PMPLzh7o2RgnP1HbeZbNLHbuD7fSvoK14sEh5hFHWkB
This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (1 decision). 15 of 16 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.
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generated: 5/31/2026, 6:06:06 PM
last updated: 5/31/2026, 6:06:06 PM
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