Leaked Call, Private Wallets, $200,000 Scheme: Axiom Insider Trading’s Allegations

A senior Axiom employee allegedly accessed sensitive user data, shared screenshots of private wallets and coordinated targeted trading strategies.

ZachXBT has alleged that an Axiom Exchange employee misused internal access to sensitive user data.

In a series of posts, the prominent crypto researcher identified the employee as Broox Bauer and claimed that starting in early 2025, he used internal tools at Axiom to look up private wallet information and track user activity for trading purposes.

Internal tools are exploited

Axiom was founded in 2024 by Mist and Cal and later participated in Y Combinator’s Winter 2025 batch. ZachXBT said the platform quickly became one of the most profitable companies in the crypto sector, generating over $390 million in revenue to date. He stated that he was called in to independently investigate allegations of misconduct at the company after receiving reports.

According to the researcher, Broox was a senior business development associate at Axiom, based in New York. In recorded excerpts of a private group conversation, Broox allegedly said he could track any Axiom user via referral codes, wallet addresses or user IDs, claiming he could “discover anything related to that person.”

In the same recording, Broox allegedly described initially investigating 10 to 20 wallets and gradually increasing that number to avoid suspicion. ZachXBT said Broox also set rules for how others could request user searches and stated he would send a full list of wallets.

The researcher further alleged that in April 2025, Broox shared a screenshot of an internal Axiom dashboard showing private portfolios of a trader identified as “Jerry.” In August 2025, Broox reportedly shared another image showing registration details and connected wallets for a merchant named ‘Monix’. That same month, he reportedly discussed looking up Axiom users who had traded the meme coin AURA.

According to ZachXBT, members of the group created a Google Sheet that collected wallet addresses for multiple Key Opinion Leader (KOL) targets. The magazine allegedly mapped wallet data obtained by Broox through Axiom’s internal dashboard. Multiple KOLs mentioned in the document or shown in leaked screenshots were contacted and independently confirmed that the wallet information attributed to them was accurate, the chain sleuth added.

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One of the targeted traders was identified as Marcell, described as a KOL known for purchasing large quantities of meme coin tokens from private wallets before promoting them to followers. ZachXBT said such merchants are considered prime targets because private wallet addresses are rarely public and address reuse is less common, increasing the value of privileged information.

ZachXBT stated that Broox’s main wallet was identified through private chat messages and related addresses were mapped. However, he said that due to the high volume of meme coin trading, it was difficult to isolate specific, reliable examples of insider trading without access to Axiom’s internal logs to assess the timing of the trading. Funds from related addresses would have flowed primarily to various centralized exchange deposit addresses.

The investigator also alleged that Broox discussed plans during a recorded conversation in February 2026 to help a recently hired Axiom moderator, identified as Gowno (Seb), make a quick $200,000 profit by abusing access to internal tools. ZachXBT claimed that Broox shared screenshots of exchange rate balances in private chats to demonstrate that the activity had already generated returns.

ZachXBT added that because Broox is based in New York City, the case could potentially fall under the jurisdiction of the Southern District of New York.

Crime investigations in the chain

From linking ‘Lick’ to wallets linked to more than $90 million in suspected thefts and seizure-related US government funds, to uncovering a $5-10 billion ‘Black U’ money laundering market on Tron allegedly linked to the Lazarus Group, ZachXBT has built a reputation for unearthing major crypto crime networks.

He explained how stolen assets from hacks on platforms like Bybit were funneled through illegal channels, and separately exposed a Canadian scammer accused of stealing more than $2 million through Coinbase impersonation schemes.