MrBeast or Jimmy Donaldson is an American YouTube giant who has made a name for himself on large-scale videos with generous prizes and challenges. His videos are a mixture of charity work, crazy challenges and huge cash rewards.

The author is generally known for giving away millions of dollars to his subscribers and random people. MrBeast’s success has subsequently led to the creation of his own businesses, including the Feastables chocolate brand and a burger chain.

As of today, the man has 320 million YouTube subscribers. And this is what MrBeast’s latest videos look like, along with his most popular videos. As you can see, they’re racking up hundreds of millions of views, which also leads to huge earnings for the channel owner.

Latest and most popular videos of MrBeast user on YouTube

Here are some of MrBeast’s “achievements” that he has noted in his profile details. It seems Jimmy has raised $20 million to plant 20 million trees, removed 30 million pounds of trash from the ocean, built wells in Africa, helped thousands of blind people and thousands of deaf people regain their sight and hearing respectively, donated over a hundred cars, and counted to 100,000.

He has also donated millions of dollars to charity, donated a private island twice and crossed the US with an Uber taxi. However, from the looks of it, now it seems that a nasty item about not the most ethical earnings from cryptocurrencies will be added to this list.

MrBeast’s cryptocurrency exposé

MrBeast “allegedly made over $10 million” by keeping the audience focused on small-cap tokens as part of an IDO, i.e. their initial distribution.

Such projects were promoted by influencers Lark Davis, CryptoBanter, KSI and other high-profile individuals who have earned a bad reputation in the blockchain industry for making money from obscure projects. In theory, MrBeast did not directly break the law, but his actions have sparked controversy in the community over ethics.


Recall, celebrities often earn money on cryptocurrencies with the help of their subscribers. The scheme works as follows: they invest in some project and receive tokens at a low price. The celebrity then promotes the crypto asset in some way - either through direct advertising, or by commenting or reposting it on a social network. When fans find out about it and purchase the asset, it causes its value to skyrocket. Well, the celebrity sells the coins, which leads to his earnings, collapse of the exchange rate and loss of fans at the same time.

SomaXBT’s investigation is based on the blogger’s wallet data provided by Arkham Intelligence platform. The first project he promoted was the SUPER token from SuperfarmDAO, whose team is now known as SuperVerse. The YouTuber earned more than $9 million on this token after investing only $100,000.

MrBeast blockchain wallet on the Arkham analytics platform

As proof, SomaXBT published a screenshot from the stream of a well-known user under the pseudonym EllioTrades, which shows a private message from MrBeast discussing an investment in SUPER.

MrBeast’s message on the stream

This also matches the transactions from the blogger’s wallet that SomaXBT described. Here’s the order of events.

  • On 21 February 2021, MrBeast withdrew 100k USDC from Binance;
  • a few minutes later, the funds were sent to a new wallet;
  • the next day MrBeast received 1 million SUPER tokens.

Map of SUPER tokens movement with the participation of MrBeast author

A little later, the blogger signed up for the official SuperfarmDAO Twitter account. He also commented on one of the tweets, leaving an eye emoji that hints that MrBeast is keeping an eye on what’s happening with the token.

That tweet has now been deleted, and the project itself has “moved” to a new account called SuperVerse.

Emoji from MrBeast’s official account in the comments of the SuperfarmDAO token team’s post

On 30 March 2021, MrBeast transferred 1 million SUPER tokens to a new wallet, adding 0.2 ETH to pay commissions. Over the next 24 hours, this wallet sold all tokens in 751 transactions and received 1,900 ETH. The next day – 31 March 2021 – the wallet owner sent 1900 ETH back to the main MrBeast wallet.

On 1 April 2021, Jimmy transferred 1900 ETH to his Binance.US exchange account for withdrawal. After that, between 8 May and 22 October 2021, the MrBeast wallet received $6.9 million worth of SUPER tokens from the vesting contract, i.e. the gradual unlocking of tokens. He then sold all the crypto assets, earning about $5.5 million.

MrBeast wallet transactions with the SUPER token

The second project promoted by the blogger is Polychain Monsters, now known as Protocol Monster Labs. He invested $25,000 in PMON tokens and earned $1.7 million on them.

By the way, a brief review of the project itself was made by another famous author of investigations ZachXBT, whose works we have familiarised ourselves with earlier. As it turned out, even the PMON team was involved in dumping coins on ordinary investors, which in essence can be classified as customer fraud.

MrBeast wallet transactions with PMON

According to Cointelegraph’s sources, the third project was the SHOPX token from the SPLYT team. MrBeast earned $765,000 by investing $25,000. He promoted the token together with KSI and Lark Davis.

The screenshot below shows the transactions of the blogger’s wallet with this token.

SHOPX token movement map

The fourth project is the STAK token, on which the blogger earned $1.25 million. In this case, no direct transactions with the token on the wallet can be traced, but the deposit of funds on Binance coincides with the allocation of funds for MrBeast.

As SomaXBT notes, the value of SUPER has sagged by about 75 per cent by today. At the same time, the other tokens featured on the YouTuber’s wallet have collapsed by more than 90 per cent.

Cryptocurrency scammers

That said, MrBeast was somehow involved in popularising them in order to artificially inflate the value and sell the tokens to his audience. The blogger can hardly be held accountable, but the story of his market manipulation is a reminder that you should not believe every celebrity. The goal of all investors of any asset is to make money, so this point should also be taken into account.


Such actions do not constitute a crime, so MrBeast is unlikely to be held responsible for such operations. However, they still deserve coverage. In this case, fans of the author of the video will know that his positive comments about this or that cryptoproject mean nothing, and it makes no sense to contact him.
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