Kimchi

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Kimchi
Image: X profile avatar of @kimchi1x
handle	@kimchi1x
role	trader
known for	the 40 million dollar TRUMP trade legend

Kimchi is a Solana meme coin trader who became crypto folklore through an unverified claim of a 40 million dollar TRUMP trade, a mythologized exit from the timeline, and an August 2026 virality wave that put him on the rapper Gunna's Instagram story.

Contents

1 The TRUMP trade legend
2 Logging off
3 The folklore wave
4 Gunna and the mainstream crossover
5 References

Kimchi, reported in coverage as Clayton Kim, is a Solana meme coin trader who became one of the most mythologized figures in the trenches. His legend rests on a claim that he made about 40 million dollars trading the Official Trump token during its January 2025 launch weekend and then simply logged off. Whether the number is real is part of the story: no wallet, entry or exit has ever been publicly verified, and the tale has spread almost entirely through other traders repeating it.

The TRUMP trade legend

According to the widely repeated version, Kimchi rode TRUMP from its launch weekend chaos, when the token ran from a 400 million dollar market capitalization toward its roughly 70 billion dollar fully diluted peak, and exited with about 40 million dollars in profit. Profiles trace his path before the trade: interviews and threads describe him tracking whale wallets and hunting alpha as early as 2022, beginning to trade seriously in April 2024, and posting six figure months as a respected trench trader before the TRUMP run. The claim's weakness is equally documented. Skeptics have publicly asked for the transactions and been given none, onchain sleuths note that nobody has produced his wallet, and rebuttal videos argue the figure is exaggerated or invented. The wiki treats the 40 million dollars as an attributed claim, not a verified result.

Logging off

What separates Kimchi from other winners is the exit. He reportedly told peers he would quit the moment he hit eight figures, and by his own telling he did exactly that, leaving the timeline at the top. Since then his public output has been sparse and curated: a few posts a year showing a watch, a supercar or a jet, followed by months of silence. The cadence turned him into what the streamer rasmr called folklore: "He doesn't make videos. He doesn't post... Kimchi is folklore. Why? Cause he hit a trade. Cause he hit PNL after PNL." In a scene built on constant posting, the refusal to post became the flex.

The folklore wave

In August 2026 the legend went industrial. FaZe Banks paused a livestream to tell a dramatic Kimchi story, a moment that clip pages later described as deliberately engineered for virality, and the story became a global TikTok trend carried by creators including StableRonaldo, Lacy and TJR, with clip networks claiming hundreds of millions of impressions. Banks and Ansem discussed the Kimchi story at length, streamers debated whether the trade ever happened, and the phrase "Kimchi is folklore" circulated as shorthand for the whole phenomenon: a trader famous precisely because he cannot be verified.

Gunna and the mainstream crossover

Days later the rapper Gunna posted Kimchi on his Instagram story, smiling at a table in a chain and chronograph watch, with a nod to a 1,400 SOL transaction. Screenshots flooded crypto Twitter within hours and the sighting trended on X, framed as proof that "traders are the new celebrities." For the trenches the image completed the arc: a pseudonymous chart grinder elevated to celebrity adjacency on the strength of a trade nobody has ever seen onchain.

Kimchi

The TRUMP trade legend

Logging off

The folklore wave

Gunna and the mainstream crossover

References