Believe is experiencing a backlash in traffic.

With the sharp pull of the platform currency LAUNCHCOIN, the successive appearance of tens of millions of fast-pass transactions

Author: Nancy, PANews

Believe is experiencing a backlash in traffic. With the sharp pull of the platform currency LAUNCHCOIN, the successive appearance of tens of millions of fast-pass transactions, and the appeal of a group of Web2 entrepreneurs, Believe once occupied the C position in the recent Launchpad melee and became the focus of traffic. However, behind the excitement, with the platform's high withdrawal, frequent "scraping" phenomenon, and lack of sustainable narrative problems gradually emerging, the community FUD sentiment quickly heated up.

YAPPER's plunge has become the fuse of FUD, and Believe's ecosystem faces multiple hidden dangers

$YAPPER is the fuse of the FUD storm in the Believe ecosystem. According to reports, Yapper is a deep fake AI application used to make funny high-quality videos, and platform users have generated more than 100 million views. Its founder, Emmet Halm, founded the online tutoring company The Massapequa Tutor and the university application platform Acceptitas, both of which have been acquired.

Halm's entrepreneurial experience in the Web2 field quickly attracted attention to the token $YAPPER he launched, and even received multiple retweets from Believe officials to support it, pushing its market value to over $28 million. However, GMGN data shows that as of the time of writing, the maximum drop in the price of $YAPPER from its peak has reached 75.62%.

But this decline is not accidental, and there are multiple factors behind it: On the one hand, Halm was accused of participating in the operation of another token in the Believe ecosystem, $STEALTH, which shares the same logo as the Stealth Startup founded by Halm. In the face of controversy, $STEALTH officials responded vaguely, "This is not plagiarism, nor does it represent an association, because this logo itself is a common symbol of many 'secret entrepreneurs', like a signal that an entrepreneur is 'invisible'."

Moreover, Halm’s entrepreneurial background has also caused controversy. According to foreign media The Harvard Crimson, Halm, who claims to be a Harvard dropout and crypto entrepreneur, used the slogan “Harvard students help you get into college” when he founded Acceptitas, attracting a large number of customers and tutors. However, after the company was acquired, Halm failed to properly hand over, resulting in a large number of tutors’ salaries being in arrears and customers’ request for refunds being unfulfilled, which once aroused legal and ethical doubts.

On the other hand, the issuance of $YAPPER continued the high pumping and scraping phenomenon of the Believe platform, causing retail investors to take over at high prices and suffer serious losses. Among them, Believe's excessively high pumping ratio not only caused serious capital outflow, but also led to excessively high transaction costs for users. According to crypto researcher 0xLoki , the core problem of Believe was highly consistent with that of FriendTech at the time: the net pumping (which would not remain within the ecosystem) was too high, and 4% was gone after one buy and one sell (Believe charged a 2% trading tax). If it is simply estimated based on (the current cumulative transaction volume of the Believe ecosystem) 16.78 billion * 2%, the net pumping has exceeded 33 million US dollars. The internal and external transaction ratio of Pump.fun is estimated at 1:3, and the actual net pumping rate (net pumping/total transaction volume) = 1% * (1/4) = 0.25%. It seems that the transaction fee rate is 1:2, but the actual net pumping rate is 1:8.

"Trading volume is 100m+, but the market value is less than 10m. What does this mean? It means that the dealer directly poured money into the market when retail investors were most FOMO about the trading volume." Crypto KOL @xingpt pointed out. In addition, because Believe allows the rapid creation of tokens through social tags, this method causes the new coins on the platform to be quickly scraped by "scrapers" (the behavior of preemptive robots buying tokens at a very fast speed at the moment of token issuance or trading opening) at the opening of the market, and then "pour" (quickly pull up and distribute) the market after pushing up the market value in a short period of time. Retail investors often become the target of buying after FOMO chasing high prices. Data shows that in the past 24 hours, more than half of the tokens on the Believe platform have fallen by more than 50%.

The main control of the market has driven a surge of more than 300 times, and LAUNCHCOIN has contributed more than half of the ecosystem's market value

PANews previously reported that Believe's predecessor was PASTERNAK, a celebrity coin created by Clout founder Ben