Dethective is a pseudonymous crypto on-chain investigator who publishes threads exposing alleged scams, insider trading, and pump-and-dump activity across multiple blockchains. Dethective's Twitter Score is 120 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #5,480 (top 5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Dethective focuses on wallet-level forensics across Solana, Hyperliquid, BSC, and other chains, tracking KOL wallets and identifying patterns of alleged market manipulation. A June 2025 thread alleging that James Wynn counter-traded against himself on Hyperliquid by holding simultaneous long and short BTC positions drew 671.8K views. A July 2026 thread alleged that Andrew Tate conducted a pump-and-dump on the token Daddy, with the market cap moving from $10M to $22M following a tweet and an estimated $25K profit from automated selling. A December 2025 analysis of 235 Binance Perps listings found that only 14% were trading above their listing price, with an average capital loss of 68% for buyers.
Dethective is affiliated with Ethos Network as a Curator and appears on its developers leaderboard for third-party builders. On the platform, Dethective holds a credibility score of 1850 with Reputable status, verified human status, and 41 positive reviews received. Dethective also built kolbags.fun, a public tool for looking up KOL wallets on Bags.fm alongside associated Ethos scores and trade data, and operates the Telegram channel The Wallet Cave with 2,631 subscribers, where wallet addresses and investigation data are shared.
Dethective has been active on X since 2022 and has accumulated 39,620 followers as of August 2026 across 6,155 posts. Dethective has been mentioned by 37 accounts a total of 48 times.
Who follows Dethective on X?
The accounts that follow Dethective include 303 founders, 66 angel investors, 381 influencers and 1 VCs. Among them are ZachXBT, Laura Shin, Threadguy, smolting wassie, verse, Alex Svanevik and Andre Cronje.