This person was likely banned for violating Zora's Terms of Service by creating a "Zora Coin" before the official launch, which falls under prohibited activities.
The specific violation appears to be TOS 9.1.10: "attempt to impersonate another user or person."
If my analysis holds true, they are currently continuing to operate under at least 5 active accounts, out of a total of 11 they've created (6 of which have been banned).
"How do you even find these people?" you might ask, and let me give a brief summary,
When I first started posting on Zora, a person named "lbc" would sometimes buy my posts in small amounts, supposedly to help promote them. I appreciated the gesture, so I checked their account and was met with an unending sea of AI slop. I don't really like slop, so I refrained from following them.
I would occasionally see "lbc" on my posts, but then it stopped. And at some point, I wondered what this person was doing so I checked their profile,
And I was met with the Zora's "profile banned" message. I didn't know why they were banned as Zora doesn't explains the reasonings for bans. I just thought "okay i guess they are gone".
Fast forward to couple of months later,
I had posted something called "ARE CREATOR COINS COMING???", and someone started spamming the comments. I believe their name was "jacobaio" at the time, which they later changed to "anthonys" because, as they stated, it was too similar to jacob.
At the time, I had forgotten who "lbc" was, and I asked them to stop spamming. Which they replied bitterly to. And after searching for "lbc" in the search bar of Zora, I remembered who they were. Then, I went to their tokenchat profile to see if they mentioned why they were banned.
And I indeed would find the answer under this post. (Not even making a fucking text post by yourself is insane btw, @grok "change my diaper" level of laziness)
so looks like they got banned under some sort of "impersonation" of the Zora brand under the TOS. Which does make sense.
The first sane action to take would be to see who funded the new account. So let's do that.
And here is our answer. Let's put this address to BaseScan and see what shows up first.
BaseScan states the account is funded by "0xE78DA1f3A55FB5d359ddcBC10866c0E3cFAeEa7e", which we can directly check with zora.co/0xE78DA1f3A55FB5d359ddcBC10866c0E3cFAeEa7e as Zora automatically redirects to the username.
We are greeted with the account @lgrt, which is also banned. @lgrt was pretty much this person's and their circle's "boosting" group. They would buy each other's coins in small amounts to gain attention.
We can use the Zora API to see information about @lgrt even though it is now banned.
And we are given the info:
"username": "lgrt",
"displayName": "Let's Get Rich Together",
"bio": "Official LGRT Crew profile. All coins here are verified drops. Built by the community—for the mission.\n\n🧠 Rewards → discord.gg/dDb6YcnUPp\n",
"website": "discord.gg/dDb6YcnUPp",If you try to query the posts of a banned account using the /profileCoins endpoint, Zora will refrain from sharing the posts, probably because of some backend shenanigans, so they don't show banned posts on the Frontend/UI.
What we can do though, is use the /profileBalances endpoint and pick the coins whose creator match the wallet address of the person. Doing that we will get these addresses:
We are missing 2 addresses based on the previous API response, but it should be good enough.
Now let's start using bubblemaps.io, to see if we can spot any clusters.
And the first coin already shows are grim scenario. Let me label these accounts to make it easier to tell what is going on.
I think it is fair to say the amount of banned accounts we spot here is, concerning, really. Also the names: @basedcoins, @zoracoins makes me wonder if these accounts were also banned under some kind of impersonation rule.
I remembered the name @buying, it was a similar account to @lbc, though I had never suspected they could be the same account. They are definitely under the radar now.
@nftgramz is the only account in the list that is not banned, and it doesn't look like the same person. Though I did still check their onchain activity. And they don't have any clear ties to these cluster of accounts, also their main Zora account has a Twitter account attached, so I am crossing @nftgramz off the list.
Lets continue with the primary suspects, @zoracoins and @basedcoins,
We are interested in "PRIVY" and "EXTERNAL" as they are the ones that often give valuable insight.
@zoracoins is funded by the address 0xd9F6FAA6eF8DD3BfC3856DdE2e00F82B07e2AaA1, which when put to zora.co/0xd9F6FAA6eF8DD3BfC3856DdE2e00F82B07e2AaA1, redirects to an user called: @drlordbasil, which by no surprise; is banned.
And the second tx, (one after the initial funding) is:
It is a transfer of the token "Zora Coin", (the one they've supposedly got banned for), from @zoracoins to @lbc
I believe we have cleared our doubts on @zoracoins, it definitely belongs to the same person. We also added another account to the cluster, @drlordbasil.
@basedcoins's PRIVY account is empty of transactions. and the external wallet shows it was funded by "Relay: Solver" which very likely means that they have bridged from another network, so we are seeing the Relay: Solver. Nevertheless, it doesn't hurt to check the first batch of transfers made from the account.
We don't see any transfer transactions, but rather a whole bunch of small "buy" operations. In the first iteration of Zora's coins, buying could be done with a simple "buy" contract call. This is not even remotely possible anymore, as you need to fulfill the two hooks put in by the current pool system (CreatorCoinHook and ContentCoinHook).
Going back couple of pages, we finally see our first transfers,
The transfers are sending eth: firstly from @basedcoins -> @lbc and then to @lbc -> @basedcoins.
The weird amount, plus the immediate back and forth suggests personal usage, and as such I believe we are getting even more certain that this account belongs to the same person (recall that it was also on the cluster map of @lgrt coin too)
Lets check the new account we added to the cluster of people while we are at it,
Same as @basedcoins, no activity on PRIVY, and the external wallet is funded by "Relay: Solver".
It also has little to no transactions (36), and only a handful of transfer transactions. The transfers are mostly to @lbc except one,
Which is to the account @zoracoins
It's been a while but lets return back to the 4 coin addresses we initially fetched using /profileBalances and check their cluster maps as well;
So what's our next stop? I believe we have waited long enough before checking their current main account, @anthonys, let's check the cluster map of their creator coin.
next stop: "founder coin" (?)
little note: when you query from /profileCoins or /profileBalances in the responses you are given totalVolume inside each coins fragment. So I have sorted the coins by totalVolume decreasing so we can check the most likely coins to have big clusters.
And in 4th place, @anthonys has a coin called "founders coin", it has 200 comments and a lot of holders so the map of this should look interesting.
We have unfortunately spotted two more accounts, @wen and @fda
@wen only has a single post and we can see @anthonys in it:
@fda has a lot more posts, but their creator coin holders list gives a strong idea,
To cut to the chase, yes, they also belong to the same person. There are a bunch of transfers inbound and outbound from the previously mentioned cluster of accounts.
@fda to anthony:
https://basescan.orgBase Transaction Hash: 0xa98bc4dcf1... | BaseScan
Transfer 5 M Bullish By Definition on BASE to 0x9659Bbc7...3eB894768 | Success | Jul-02-2025 06:43:41 PM (UTC)
https://basescan.orgBase Transaction Hash: 0x3a838bfc0c... | BaseScan
Transfer 500,000 Bullish By Definition on BASE to 0x9659Bbc7...3eB894768 | Success | Jul-02-2025 06:42:29 PM (UTC)
@fda to @wen
https://basescan.orgBase Transaction Hash: 0x2aadecac82... | BaseScan
Transfer 0.00009 ETH to 0x410775F9...270D4265F | Success | Jun-19-2025 02:39:27 AM (UTC)
https://basescan.orgBase Transaction Hash: 0xce32744248... | BaseScan
Transfer 0.00012 ETH to 0x410775F9...270D4265F | Success | Jun-17-2025 04:29:51 PM (UTC)
@wen funded by @lbc
https://basescan.orgBase Transaction Hash: 0x82046fa3a8... | BaseScan
Transfer 0.00001968 ETH to 0x410775F9...270D4265F | Success | Jun-15-2025 01:59:23 PM (UTC)
and there is a bunch more but lets continue
If we check their Twitter, they also promote two more accounts of theirs:
It serves no purpose to check these accounts, as they are showcasing them themselves.
As this person has an inordinate number of accounts, I must have missed a couple, perhaps a lot of them, in the process. If I felt like wasting even more time, I'd check:
https://v2.bubblemaps.io/map?address=0x18baeeb7f9f7f9c4cd024ab0e8c24cb3f2f73beb&chain=base
and the tokenchat of all of the people mentioned,
however I believe we have already uncovered far more than enough.
Summary:
lgrt (banned)
lbc (banned)
buying (banned)
zoracoins (banned)
basedcoins (banned)
drlordbasil (banned)
wen (active)
anthonys (active)
fda (active)
incremental (active)
coinology (active)
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