Vitalik Buterin sells meme coins for $30k” or something similar. But since it’s under 100 characters, maybe shorten it. Maybe “Buterin sells crypto tokens for $30k” but that’s 26 characters. Wait, “Buterin sells Ethereum tokens for $30K” is 25 characters.

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<a href="https://jpygbp.com/eth-usd/">Ethereum</a> Creator Vitalik Buterin Starts April Fools’ Day With Major Meme Coin Cleanup

As the market begins to recover – with Ethereum up almost 8% this week – people in the crypto community have noticed activity from wallets linked to Vitalik Buterin again.

Vitalik Buterin is continuing to sell meme coins he’s received as gifts and using the money to support blockchain infrastructure and charitable causes. Recent data from Arkham, as reported by Onchain Lens, shows several of these sales have happened recently.

I noticed Vitalik Buterin recently sold off another bunch of those random, small-cap meme coins people keep sending him. It netted him around 14.5 ETH, which is a little over $30,000 at today’s prices.

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Is new meme purge starting? 

Vitalik Buterin has consistently said he doesn’t want to receive free tokens. He encourages developers to donate them instead to charity. In the past, he’s either destroyed these tokens (‘burned’ them) or sold them to support the growth of the crypto ecosystem and fund charitable work, like when he donated $1 billion worth of Shiba Inu (SHIB) in 2021.

Vitalik is once again selling meme tokens he received as gifts, this time for 14.5 ETH, which is around $30,000. He also transferred 70,000 USDC and 44 ETH (approximately $92,000) to Railgun, a service that helps keep transactions private. He’s expected to sell more tokens in the future.

— Onchain Lens (@OnchainLens) April 1, 2026

Recent activity involving SHIB brought up a past issue with a donation Vitalik Buterin made. He expressed concern that the $500 million worth of SHIB he previously gave to the Future of Life Institute was used to influence politicians regarding AI policy.

Vitalik Buterin is still a strong supporter of privacy tools, recently moving $92,000 worth of digital currency – 70,000 USDC and 44 ETH – into the Railgun protocol. He believes privacy is a basic right, and Railgun, which uses advanced encryption technology, helps keep financial transactions private and protected from unwanted public tracking.

Vitalik Buterin last sold Ethereum in late February 2026, unloading $35 million worth of the cryptocurrency. While he made a similar sale then, experts don’t believe today’s transactions indicate he’s planning another large sale this month, as the current activity appears different.

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2026-04-01 14:25