{"id":87962,"date":"2026-08-21T12:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T16:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87962"},"modified":"2026-08-21T12:37:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T16:37:23","slug":"grand-theft-auto-6-leaks-are-fueling-a-crypto-pump-and-dump-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87962","title":{"rendered":"Grand Theft Auto 6 Leaks Are Fueling A Crypto Pump-And-Dump Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/grand-theft-auto-vi\/\" data-type=\"games\" data-id=\"477234\">Grand Theft Auto <\/a>6 continues to leak via small snippets of gameplay, you might be wondering why each video is plastered with watermarks for a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meme_coin\">meme coin<\/a>? It turns out while you&#8217;re enjoying the early look at Rockstar&#8217;s latest project, others are literally profiting off of the virality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each of the leaked gameplay videos have advertised a meme coin called <a href=\"https:\/\/dex.coinmarketcap.com\/token\/solana\/ApZuxdpzMrbEYTGEzeY9afh5pj9d6qPRJCTgQYiipbKg\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/dex.coinmarketcap.com\/token\/solana\/ApZuxdpzMrbEYTGEzeY9afh5pj9d6qPRJCTgQYiipbKg\/\">CYBERLEEK<\/a>, named after the supposed leaker and hosted on the Solana blockchain. This coin seemingly appeared on August 16, just two days before the first gameplay leak occurred. It didn&#8217;t take long for the price of the coin to skyrocket afterwards, as viewers curious enough to go looking started accumulating vast amounts of it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the space of a day, the price of the coin increased by more than 5,000%, allowing some early holders to quickly cash out before most were able to react. It&#8217;s a textbook pump-and-dump scheme that is ongoing, with the price still swinging wildly with new drops of gameplay and new buyers being lured in.<\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/youtu.be\/mwgi4ECJwic  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The extent of the scheme is, however, probably smaller than you might imagine. According to tracking on CoinMarketCap, several buyers have made some modest profit, with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Grand Theft Auto 6 continues to leak via small snippets of gameplay, you might be wondering why each video is plastered with watermarks for a meme coin? It turns out while you&#8217;re enjoying the early look at Rockstar&#8217;s latest project, others are literally profiting off of the virality. Each of the leaked gameplay videos&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":87964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87962"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87965,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87962\/revisions\/87965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}