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name: icoin-vs-inu
description: Head-to-head of ICOIN and INU, the two AAPL-lane memecoins on Robinhood Chain, 16 Sep 2026, with the @AttilanX vault claims audited on chain. Read before any AAPL-lane, ICOIN, INU or LONG-community-vault question.
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aliases: [icoin vs inu, aapl lane head to head, attilan vault claim, long community vault]
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# ICOIN vs INU, 16 Sep 2026 11:54 Bangkok

Ben asked "which of them will be the winner", off @AttilanX's post to @Natan_benish (14 Sep 18:08 UTC, 1.1K views): *"with all the volume $AI has had and at its multiple how is the $iCoin vault holding a closely comparable amount of aapl stock currently - $70k aapl vs 300k nvidia and about the same amount burned."*
ICOIN `0x5d6ef090a1461b11c9427ac319260122d1c61e18` . INU `0x63ee32ac3077d1fbd8a77ebba2a6ed4b8e9c1e18` . AAPL `0xaF3D76f1834A1d425780943C99Ea8A608f8a93f9`. See [[stonks-onchain-lanes]] for the 6 Sep ICOIN screen and [[inu-aapl]] for yesterday's INU screen.

## VERDICT: ICOIN is the better VEHICLE. NEITHER is a buy today.
INU is pure attention with nothing attached to the token. ICOIN is attention plus a small real asset floor and a buy-and-burn that is still running. **On a couple-of-months horizon the one with a mechanism wins, but only once the selling stops, and right now both are in free fall.**

## ATTILAN'S CLAIMS, AUDITED
- **"$iCoin vault holding about $70k aapl" . CONFIRMED.** Vault/burner `0x24c2410941b4603cf5504810d5df841db4d303ad` (6,550-byte contract) holds **222.2004 AAPL = $73,673** at AAPL $331.56, plus **9,379,581 ICOIN queued** for burning (0.95% of supply).
- **"about the same amount burned" (ICOIN vs AI) . CONFIRMED in percent-of-supply terms.** ICOIN supply is **990,676,127**, so **9,323,873 burned = 0.93%**, and it burns by real `_burn` to the zero address with **0.00 at the dead address**. AI: supply 991,311,166 plus 2,046,730.80 at dead = **about 10,735,565 destroyed = 1.07%**. INU: supply 999,538,977 and **2,482,179.42 at dead = 0.25%**.
- **The vault as a share of cap is the real point and it survives:** ICOIN $73,673 against a **$1,932,055** cap = **3.81% of market cap in actual Apple stock**. AI at about $300k NVDA against a $315M cap = **0.095%**. **ICOIN's vault is roughly 40x better per dollar of cap.** INU has no vault at all.
- **"iCoin is the clear top Long organic aapl pair" . FALSE ON VOLUME TODAY.** INU does **$2,663,211** of 24h volume against ICOIN's **$478,465**, so INU leads the lane 5.6 to 1.
- **"wallets able to send @theunipcs $150k worth / 2.5% just now" (14 Sep 19:11 UTC, 10,564 views) . PERCENTAGE RIGHT, DOLLARS OVERSTATED, AND THE FRAMING IS WRONG.** That is the transfer traced in [[unipcs-wallets]]: 24,236,172 INU = **2.42% of supply**, worth **$114,886**, not $150k, sent at 14 Sep 18:59:54 UTC (he posted 12 minutes later). **It was BOUGHT on the open market for about $69,000 net, not an insider allocation.**
- **"$iCoin will trade 50mm mc+ sometime in October"** (15 Sep, 917 views): opinion, no evidence offered. @AttilanX has **1,214 followers**; he is a committed ICOIN holder posting a thesis, not an independent source. Natan and LONG have never replied to any of it.

## THE NUMBERS SIDE BY SIDE, 16 Sep 11:54 Bangkok
| | ICOIN | INU |
|---|---|---|
| Age | **55.7 days** | 5.2 days |
| Market cap | **$1,932,055** | $3,836,753 |
| Aggregate liquidity | $472,607 / 8 pools | $750,826 / 10 pools |
| Volume 24h | $478,465 | **$2,663,211** |
| Turnover vs liq | 1.0x | 3.5x |
| 24h price | -26.2% | **-45.8%** |
| 24h buys / sells | 549 / 973 (sellers 1.8 to 1) | 2,623 / 2,732 (even) |
| Holders | **6,216** (5,549 on 6 Sep, +12%) | 2,766 |
| Top 20 excluding the pool | 32.94% | 34.83% |
| Burned | **0.93%, still running** | 0.25%, one-off |
| AAPL vault | **$73,673 = 3.81% of cap** | none |
| Off its 14-day high | -79.5% | -67.5% |

## ⚠ CORRECTED 16 Sep: THE BURN IS REAL BUT IT IS **NOT A MARKET BUY**
Decoded the actual burn tx `0x9f011429872cb10ffcbdb4670a1c705aa8a9311f958e3378df11d8c7ec2d49d2`: **ICOIN 42,254.90 AND AAPL 0.54 both come OUT of the Uniswap v4 PoolManager together, proportionally, to the hook `0x4e3468951d49f2eea976ed0d6e75ffcb44a9a544`**, then the hook forwards 40,142.15 ICOIN + 0.51 AAPL to the vault `0x24c2410941b4603cf5504810d5df841db4d303ad`, which sends 8,028.43 ICOIN to the deployer `0xd9479a721dc72e42385baa557e904d36ac21ef4e` and burns 16,056.86 to the zero address. **Both tokens leaving the pool together is the signature of a v4 FEE CLAIM, not a swap.** All 9,330,984 ICOIN that reached the vault over 5.9 days came from that one hook contract; **zero came from a router.**
**So ICOIN burns fee income taken in kind. Real supply reduction, ZERO buy pressure.** The 6 Sep note in [[stonks-onchain-lanes]] calling it "market-bought" was wrong and was repeated here before this correction. The misleading number was the ICOIN inflow source address: `0x4e3468...` is 25,533 bytes of contract, which I assumed was a router; it is the LONG fee hook.
**The VAULT is separately verified and real:** AAPL arrives every day since 4 Sep from that same hook, 191.9683 AAPL gross over the window, with **exactly 20% flowing straight back out each day** (37.6837 in / 7.5367 out; 19.6331 / 3.9266), matching the project's stated "80% community vault, 20% goes to us". Net +153.5747, balance **222.2004 AAPL = $73,673**. But accrual is decaying: +30.1 AAPL/day on 5 Sep down to about +10.4/day now (~$3,450/day).

Scanned Transfer-to-zero for ICOIN over the last 3.6 days: **7 events, 1,987,263 ICOIN, 100% from the vault contract `0x24c2410941b4603cf5504810d5df841db4d303ad`, zero from any EOA.** By day, Bangkok: **13 Sep 653,070 . 14 Sep 545,755 . 15 Sep 638,046 . 16 Sep 150,394 (partial)**. So about **612,000/day, steady for three days**.
**But it has HALVED since the 6 Sep screen**, which measured 1,172,857/day. That screen's falsifier was "daily burn under 500,000/day"; it is at 612,000 and falling toward it. In dollars the burn is now only about **$1,194/day**, which is **0.25% of pool depth per day**, the same order as DELTA and STONKBROKER, so **it is a floor mechanism, not a price driver.**

## WHY ICOIN IS THE BETTER VEHICLE AND STILL NOT A BUY
For: half the market cap of INU with 2.2x the holders, 11x the age, a verified daily supply burn still executing (fee-funded, **not** market-funded), and 3.81% of its cap sitting in real Apple stock that is still growing. Against: **volume has collapsed 87% since 6 Sep** ($3,585,252 to $478,465), sellers lead 1.8 to 1 on the day, it is 79.5% off its 14-day high, and 81% of its volume is still in the AAPL-quoted pool so its bid is stock-token holders rather than graduated demand.
For INU: 5.6x the volume and the lane's attention. Against: **nothing accrues to the token**, no vault, a one-off 0.25% burn, five days of history, and the insiders already moved 2.42% of supply into a KOL's fomo account.

## ⚠ CORRECTED 16 Sep: "INU HAS THE CROWD" IS WRONG
Ben asked me to double-check "ICOIN has the machine, INU has the crowd". The second half is false. **ICOIN 6,216 holders vs INU 2,766: ICOIN has 2.2x the people.** INU has more CHURN, not more crowd. 24h unique-trader counts from Transfer logs grouped by PoolManager counterparty:
| | ICOIN | INU |
|---|---|---|
| Transfers / swap txs | 7,179 / 1,523 | 21,190 / 2,498 |
| Distinct buyers / sellers | 153 / 113 | 288 / 203 |
| **Unique traders** | **209** (57 did both, 27%) | **377** (114 did both, 30%) |
| Swap txs per unique trader | 7.3 | 6.6 |
| Tokens bought out of pools | 105,210,799 | 158,897,279 |
| Tokens sold into pools | 105,089,645 | 188,888,579 |
| **Net pool flow** | **+121,153 (flat)** | **-29,991,301 (heavy net selling)** |
So: INU 1.8x the unique traders over 24h, ICOIN 2.2x the total holders, and **INU's traders are dumping 30 million tokens into the pools while ICOIN is flat.** The honest one-liner is: **ICOIN = fewer traders, more holders, real vault, zero buy pressure. INU = more noise, fewer holders, crowd leaving.**

## TRIGGERS
- **ICOIN buy trigger:** a daily close back above **$0.00295** (the 14 Sep close) with the **daily burn holding above 500,000** and the vault's AAPL balance still rising past 222.2004. Give up if the burn prints under 400,000/day for two days, or the vault stops adding AAPL.
- **INU:** unchanged from [[inu-aapl]], a daily close above $0.0051319 plus net pool flow turning to buying. It has since made a lower low; 16 Sep close $0.00387.
- **Ben holds 1.6M ICOIN** (from the 10 Sep pass). At $0.00195 that is about $3,120.

## METHOD NOTES
- **ICOIN burns via `_burn` to the zero address, so `balanceOf(dead)` reads 0 and looks like no burn at all.** Always check `totalSupply()` against the launch supply AND the dead balance. AI does both.
- Blockscout `/api/v2/tokens/{ca}` and `/holders` are the fast route to holder counts and concentration, but only through the browser bridge: the container gets Cloudflare 403.