{"id":156117,"date":"2026-04-25T15:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T15:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=156117"},"modified":"2026-04-25T15:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T15:16:13","slug":"believe-founder-arrested-on-strangulation-charges-as-token-collapses-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=156117","title":{"rendered":"Believe Founder Arrested on Strangulation Charges as Token Collapses 99%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Pasternak, the 26-year-old founder of Solana-based token launchpad Believe, was arrested in New York on charges of second-degree strangulation and assault as the platform\u2019s native token trades 99.8% below its all-time high. A class action lawsuit alleges he systematically extracted $54 million in fees. Key Takeaways: Pasternak, 26, was charged with second-degree strangulation and [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Pasternak, the 26-year-old founder of Solana-based token launchpad Believe, was arrested in New York on charges of second-degree strangulation and assault as the platform\u2019s native token trades 99.8% below its all-time high. A class action lawsuit alleges he systematically extracted $54 million in fees. Key Takeaways: Pasternak, 26, was charged with second-degree strangulation and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":156118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/156118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}