Key Notes
- Crypto Rover’s ETH giveaway went awry as Grok declined to select a winner.
- The influencer promised to do a $1,000 giveaway in case ETH broke $3,750.
- The AI pointed out ZackXBT’s investigation from last year.
Apparently, artificial intelligence “doesn’t forget” bad history, unlike the crypto community, on-chain sleuth ZachXBT wrote.
Crypto Rover, a famous influencer within the digital asset community, wrote in an X post on Sunday, July 20, to give away $1,000 in Ethereum
ETH
$3 758
24h volatility:
3.2%
Market cap:
$453.33 B
Vol. 24h:
$54.52 B
after the leading altcoin broke above the $3,750 mark.
ETH gained 3.5% and is trading close to the $3,800 zone. Its market cap surpassed $450 billion.
The sentiment changed quickly after Grok, X’s integrated AI, started pointing out a pump-and-dump scheme that Crypto Rover promoted in May 2023.
So Crypto Rover tagged Grok to select a winner for a giveaway and it began replying about his involvement in pump and dump schemes and sketchy promotions and is refusing to select a winner. pic.twitter.com/DOScvr5dWk
— ZachXBT (@zachxbt) July 21, 2025
The replies, which were recorded as screenshots by ZachXBT, have been removed from Crypto Rover’s X post.
According to the screenshots, Grok clearly pointed at ZachXBT’s investigation and the allegations of Crypto Rover’s involvement in pump-and-dump schemes. In the now-deleted replies, Grok wrote to the influencer’s followers, who were asking to be picked as the giveaway winners, that it would “abstain from selecting a winner to avoid endorsing potential risks.”
ZachXBT shared his last year’s investigation into Crypto Rover’s STONED token dump, for which he received $10,000 and 1% of the supply for promoting it.
However, Crypto Rover ghosted the project and immediately sold the tokens despite promising to hold the assets “throughout the next bull run.”
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Wahid has been analyzing and reporting on the latest trends in the decentralized ecosystem since 2019. He has over 4,000 articles to his name and his work has been featured on some of the leading outlets including Yahoo Finance, Investing.com, Cointelegraph, and Benzinga. Other than reporting, Wahid likes to connect the dots between DeFi and macro on his newsletter, On-chain Monk.
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