《Hawk Tuah》明星海莉·韋爾奇 (Hailey Welch) 的數百萬美元模因幣災難在周四對失敗的加密貨幣背後的可疑組織提出了嚴厲的訴訟後變得越來越嚴重

這種代幣被稱為“$HAWK 代幣”，其市值迅速升至 4.9 億美元，但最終在 12 月 4 日推出後的幾個小時內下跌了 90% 以上。

Social media star Hailey Welch's memecoin disaster has gone from bad to worse after the group behind the failing cryptocurrency was hit with a damning lawsuit Thursday.

社群媒體明星海莉·韋爾奇（Hailey Welch）的迷因幣災難每況愈下，因為這種失敗的加密貨幣背後的組織週四遭到了一場嚴厲的訴訟。

The coin, quickly rose to a $490 million market cap, before ultimately tanking more than 90 percent within hours of its December 4 launch.

該代幣的市值迅速升至 4.9 億美元，但最終在 12 月 4 日發行後的幾個小時內下跌了 90% 以上。

Now, the plaintiff's lawyers allege that a pre-sale for the coin had raised approximately $2.8 million, at a valuation of $16.69 million, ahead of the launch date, according to the lawsuit.

現在，根據訴訟，原告律師聲稱，在發行日期之前，該代幣的預售已籌集了約 280 萬美元，估值為 1,669 萬美元。

Investors are now seeking more than $150,000 in damages.

投資者目前正在尋求超過 15 萬美元的賠償。

The Thursday complaint also alleges that the day after the failed launch, Clinton So - who initially launched the coin - made the Tuah Foundation an off-shore entity and sold 17 percent of the tokens through the organization to a subset of people to skirt securities laws.

週四的投訴還稱，在發行失敗的第二天，最初發行該代幣的克林頓·蘇(Clinton So) 將Tuah 基金會設為離岸實體，並透過該組織向一小部分人出售了17 % 的代幣，以規避證券法。

However, defendants continued marketing the remaining 83 percent of the tokens, making 'no serious attempt' to restrict purchasers outside of the US.

然而，被告繼續銷售剩餘 83% 的代幣，「沒有認真嘗試」限制美國境外的購買者。

'The project clearly was intended to take advantage of the American market,' the complaint said.

訴狀稱，該計畫顯然是為了利用美國市場。

By So 'linking the success of the social media influencer like Welch, he literally said that the Token holders would essentially be shareholders,' the investors said.

投資者表示，透過將韋爾奇等社群媒體影響者的成功聯繫起來，他字面上是代幣持有者本質上將是股東。

'Despite these clear indications of its status as a security, the $HAWK Token was not registered by defendants,' they added.

他們補充說，儘管有這些明確的跡象表明其作為證券的地位，但被告並未註冊 $HAWK 代幣。

'We have been extremely transparent about the limited scope and extent of our involvement in the Hawk Tuah token project. We are confident that we have done nothing wrong,' a spokesperson for overHere said in an email.

「對於我們參與 Hawk Tuah 代幣專案的有限範圍和程度，我們一直非常透明。 overHere 的發言人在一封電子郵件中表示，我們相信我們沒有做錯任何事。

'As for any litigation, we will let the process play out in court.'

“至於任何訴訟，我們都會在法庭上進行。”

Welch has since faced harsh backlash online as critics accuse the 22-year-old and her team of participating in the 'money-grab' scheme, which she later denied on X.

此後，韋爾奇在網上遭到強烈反對，批評者指責這位 22 歲的韋爾奇和她的團隊參與了“搶錢”計劃，但她後來在 X 上否認了這一說法。

'Copy and pasting: Hawkanomics: Team hasn't sold one token and not 1 KOL was given 1 free token We tried to stop snipers as best we could through high fee's in the start of launch on @MeteoraAG. Fee's have now been dropped,' she posted.

「複製並貼上：Hawkanomics：團隊尚未出售一枚代幣，並且沒有向 1 個 KOL 提供 1 個免費代幣。在 @MeteoraAG 上發布之初，我們試圖通過高額費用來盡最大努力阻止狙擊手。現在費用已經取消，」她發文說。

The failed memecoin was inspired by the internet celebrity who was launched into the spotlight earlier this year following a cheeky comment during a TikTok video that went viral.

這款失敗的 memecoin 的靈感來自今年早些時候在 TikTok 視頻中發表的厚顏無恥的評論而走紅的網絡名人。

She has since made the most of her stardom as she launched a custom merchandise company and a hit podcast, 'Talk Tuah', which has featured comedians like Hannah Berner and Whitney Cummings, pop star JoJo Siwa, and entrepreneur Mark Cuban.

此後，她充分利用了自己的明星地位，創辦了一家定製商品公司和熱門播客“Talk Tuah”，其中包括漢娜·伯納和惠特尼·卡明斯等喜劇演員、流行歌星喬喬·西瓦和企業家馬克·庫班。