The hosts of the Bankless crypto podcast have landed in hot water after selling off some of the substantial quantities of $AICC tokens they were allocated as investors in the project. The $AICC project was launched by ejaaz, a co-host on an affiliated Bankless podcast, and had been promoted on Bankless shows. Each co-host received 9&nbsp;million $AICC tokens in exchange for their 5&nbsp;SOL (~$950) investments. The brand's venture capital arm, Bankless VC, also invested 2&nbsp;SOL (~$380) and received a 3.64&nbsp;million token allocation.Shortly after the token's public launch, Bankless VC dumped 300,000&nbsp;AICC (8% of their allocation) for 344&nbsp;SOL ($65,300). By immediately dumping tokens on retail when the token opened for public trading, they were able to sell the tokens for an average of $0.22 — considerably higher than the $0.05 to $0.11 the token has been trading at over the last 24&nbsp;hours.When questioned about the trades, Bankless host David Hoffmann wrote: "Agree that Bankless Ventures should not be selling tokens - that was an impulsive mistake." He announced that they had repurchased the tokens they had sold, and were "discussing a self-imposed vesting schedule" for selling tokens that they themselves had promoted.They later posted a long apology in their Discord, blaming the sales on Ben Lakoff, a general partner of Bankless VC. "Ben did not have context for this, and was in the mindset of trading a local high as you might trade a meme coin you're bullish on - or there's no way he would have done this - huge mistake, first time something like this has happened - he's devastated", explained Bankless co-host Ryan Sean Adams. He also placed some blame on AICC for not imposing any token lockups or vesting schedule that would prohibit early investors from dumping tokens on retail.

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