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Reward:

The Bureau is offering up to 1,000,000 $MBI for verified, on-chain information leading to the recovery of holder funds and the public accountability of Benjamin Pasternak.

Remarks:

Pasternak's last original X post was in October 2025. The official Believe account on X went dark in mid-January 2026. He briefly resurfaced to tease "Believe v2" without addressing the losses already accumulated by holders. At the time of his most recent legal proceedings, he was reportedly residing at a $2,000-per-night Manhattan hotel.

Caution:

On January 24, 2025, Pasternak launched the $PASTERNAK token on Solana, publicly stating he held "0 ownership" in the project. A class action filed March 23, 2026 in the Southern District of New York alleges this statement was false and designed to manufacture retail confidence. From May through October 2025, while the rebranded $LAUNCHCOIN token declined over 99%, Pasternak made at least 12 separate public commitments to a "flywheel" buyback mechanism that was supposedly going to channel platform fees back into the open market. According to the lawsuit, no buyback ever occurred.

On October 15, 2025, Pasternak announced a forced migration from $LAUNCHCOIN to a new token, $BELIEVE. The migration created 333 million new tokens distributed to insider-linked wallets, diluting existing holders by approximately 33%. Anyone who missed the two-week conversion window had their holdings permanently destroyed. Across the lifecycle of the platform, Believe processed roughly $6 billion in trading volume, from which Pasternak allegedly extracted an estimated $54 million in fees. The complaint alleges he "ran the same play three times, under three different token names."