> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://whalehunting.projectbrazen.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # The Case for $JHOLOW - URL: https://whalehunting.projectbrazen.com/the-case-for-jholow-2/ - Published: 2025-03-17T16:27:34.000Z - Updated: 2025-11-08T11:42:06.000Z - Author: Bradley Hope *Welcome to *Whale Hunting*, a weekly newsletter and podcast delving into the hidden worlds of wealth and power from the team at* [***Project Brazen***](https://www.projectbrazen.com/?ref=whalehunting.projectbrazen.com)*. For more of Project Brazen's work – including the Tribeca-selected podcast Spy Valley, and Fur & Loathing, the bizarre story of an unsolved US chemical weapons attack – visit* [*brazen.fm*](http://brazen.fm/?ref=whalehunting.projectbrazen.com)*.* For years, I've searched for a way to use the *technology* of cryptocurrency to do something maverick and extraordinary. At Brazen, we considered developing an **NFT** project inspired by our "Rich List," where every digital playing card of the world's secret billionaires had a real-time feed of what was going on with that particular character. We wondered if we could crowdsource investigations using a **DAO** or launch new podcast and film projects by "**tokenizing**" the ownership. But nothing felt quite right until I saw the wild energy in the meme coin market over the last year (everything $CHILLGUY to $GOAT to $TRUMP). --- 📰 Get the full story—free with your email. This story is open to all and our work is available for free to anyone who signs up with their e-mail. But investigations like this aren't cheap. If you believe accountability journalism matters, consider [**upgrading to a paid subscription**](https://whalehunting.projectbrazen.com/#/portal/signup)—or sending [**a one-time boost**](https://whalehunting.projectbrazen.com/#/portal/support). Every contribution directly funds more reporting like this. **Have a tip? Reach us at:** 📩 [whalehunting@projectbrazen.com](mailto:whalehunting@projectbrazen.com) 📧 [projectbrazen@protonmail.com](mailto:projectbrazen@protonmail.com) 🔒 [Secure contact details here](https://github.com/bradleyhope1/contact?ref=whalehunting.projectbrazen.com). *We protect our sources.* --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/22/0b/220b5681-5254-4689-bce8-1d73ec72c461/content/images/2025/03/V1_WHITE--1-.png) Meet $JHOLOW At **Brazen**, we aren't interested in meme coins as an investment – but we are interested in how do throw up a sail to use its speculative winds to achieve unexpected outcomes with real-world impacts. That's why we introduced last week the $JHOLOW project. Many months ago, a random person went onto the platform Pump Fun to create a memcoin called $JHOLOW – they spent no money doing so and abandoned it soon after. Every week, tens of thousands of such coins are created on the Solana blockchain. A precious few of them capture the attention of crypto markets and rise in value precipitously before crashing down in a sudden market-wide exit. For this reason, I advocate never to invest in meme coins believing you'll understand those dynamics – you will usually be slower and lose money. At best, you're lucky or in the know. But what's interesting to me is how to hijack such a project, allow speculators to jump in because of interest in the attention around the mission and then use that to cause completely unexpected, *good* outcomes. That's what's going on here. Together with some other crypto enthusiasts we essentially took over the external visuals of the $JHOLOW coin and redirected interested parties to our project to track Jho Low down and find the missing money [https://whereisjho.xyz](https://whereisjho.xyz/?ref=whalehunting.projectbrazen.com). ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/22/0b/220b5681-5254-4689-bce8-1d73ec72c461/content/images/2025/03/JHOLOW.jpg) $JHOLOW is already a millionaire, with total coins worth $1.4 million as of Monday afternoon. Our unconventional twist is that if a tipster sends us something truly new about Jho – whether a never-before-published picture, a document, a recording, a video, a really tangible lead - they will be paid a "bounty" in $JHOLOW meme coins by members of the take-over group. Those meme coins are directly tradable for fiat currency, so it's a genuine bounty. The more attention the project garners from people, including small investors, media, people watching from the sidelines and cheering and crypto speculators, the more the price of $JHOLOW rises – and the more valuable a tip bounty becomes. The goal of this project, in other words, is to **use crypto mania to track down Jho Low, learn new things, maybe even find clues as to where he hid the missing billions**. To enjoy $JHOLOW, you don't have to get involved in crypto at all - you can just follow along on [X](https://x.com/whereisjho?ref=whalehunting.projectbrazen.com), join our Discord [channel](https://discord.com/invite/Wm74CRXhnF?ref=whalehunting.projectbrazen.com), or [Telegram](https://t.me/whereisjho?ref=whalehunting.projectbrazen.com), or just check in on [https://whereisjho.xyz](https://whereisjho.xyz/?ref=whalehunting.projectbrazen.com). For those who want to buy a few of the coins for fun, here is the contract address: 8iokxpQzJ5RqqCCV7xrRtHTywQwd6AkSV1pdPutUMCpZ We already received a great first tip (only small because it's a bit old): > 🚨 Verified Tip 🚨 > > A newly surfaced photo shows Jho Low, [@LeoDiCaprio](https://twitter.com/LeoDiCaprio?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=whalehunting.projectbrazen.com), and their mothers at a private LA dinner—right in the middle of the 1MDB Fraud. > > Our team verified the image is genuine and had not previously been in any known archives. > > Small Tip: \~$1,500 in [$JHOLOW](https://twitter.com/search?q=%24JHOLOW&src=ctag&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=whalehunting.projectbrazen.com) [https://t.co/VpJQWovNO0](https://t.co/VpJQWovNO0?ref=whalehunting.projectbrazen.com) [pic.twitter.com/3AsRmul68Z](https://t.co/3AsRmul68Z?ref=whalehunting.projectbrazen.com) > > — Jho Low 刘特佐 (@whereisjho) [March 13, 2025](https://twitter.com/whereisjho/status/1900215686896521273?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=whalehunting.projectbrazen.com) The tipster received nearly $1,500 worth of $JHOLOW, which they are free to hold onto or sell off immediately. We're really hopeful this helps us get a true break-through (even bigger than the time that a member of the public sent in a picture of Jho at Disneyland Shanghai!). To really get into the philosophy and reasoning, check out the White Paper [here](https://mirror.xyz/0x15315CAFD9C98C982523d8c06A098C6AF53d5507/RP0zX15aosL1dkzcp6zmN9lRoSxFzzUrhMfkXVKFOUk?ref=whalehunting.projectbrazen.com) or download the PDF: [Investigative Meme Coins JHOLOW copyInvestigative Meme Coins JHOLOW copy.pdf159 KBdownload-circle](https://whalehunting.projectbrazen.com/content/files/2025/03/Investigative-Meme-Coins-JHOLOW-copy.pdf "Download") Please spread the word, find tips (you can email anonymously at [whereisjho@pm.me](mailto:whereisjho@pm.me) or let us know what you think! --- 🐋 This is **Whale Hunting*, a newsletter and podcast delving into the secret worlds of money and power that [we](https://projectbrazen.com/about/?ref=whalehunting.projectbrazen.com) became obsessed with during our investigation into the globe-sprawling 1MDB scandal. That project changed our entire worldview. 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