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Movement Labs Suspends Rushi Manche Amid Coinbase Delisting, Token-Dumping Scandal

 Movement Labs Suspends Rushi Manche Amid Coinbase Delisting, Token-Dumping Scandal

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By Sam Reynolds|Edited by Aoyon Ashraf

Updated May 2, 2025, 3:49 a.m. Published May 2, 2025, 3:16 a.m.

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  • Movement Labs has suspended co-founder Rushi Manche amid ongoing investigations into organizational governance.
  • Coinbase has suspended trading of the MOVE token following a report of a market maker’s involvement in a token dump.
  • The MOVE token’s value has dropped over 20% after Binance banned the implicated market maker, Web3Port.

Movement Labs announced today on X that it had suspended co-founder Rushi Manche.

The move to suspend Manche comes as Coinbase delisted the MOVE token, after CoinDesk reported that Movement Labs is investigating how a market maker tied to Web3Port acquired and dumped over 5% of the token’s supply, triggering a price crash.

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Binance had previously banned the market maker at the center of this, Web3Port, from its platform.

The MOVE token is down about 20% on the day, according to CoinDesk market data.

Sam Reynolds is a senior reporter based in Asia. Sam was part of the CoinDesk team that won the 2023 Gerald Loeb award in the breaking news category for coverage of FTX’s collapse. Prior to CoinDesk, he was a reporter with Blockworks and a semiconductor analyst with IDC.

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