{"id":13786,"date":"2025-02-18T21:02:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T21:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=13786"},"modified":"2025-02-18T21:02:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T21:02:37","slug":"meteora-co-founder-resigns-on-heels-of-solana-meme-coin-libra-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=13786","title":{"rendered":"Meteora Co-Founder Resigns On Heels Of Solana Meme Coin, Libra Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Ben Chow<\/strong>, co-founder of <strong>Meteora<\/strong>, has stepped down from his role following scrutiny over the botched launch of the <strong>Libra <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/\">LIBRA<\/a>) token, a <strong>Solana <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/sol\/usd\">SOL<\/a>)-based meme coin.<\/p>\n<p>Meow, the pseudonymous co-founder of both Meteora and <strong>Jupiter <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/\">JUP<\/a>), <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/weremeow\/status\/1891664435321647186\">announced<\/a> that neither he nor anyone at either project had benefited financially from the token.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one at Jupiter or Meteora committed any insider trading or financial wrongdoing, or received any tokens inappropriately,\u201d Meow said in a statement on X.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hi, I&#8217;m meow from Jupiter, and I also cofounded Meteora.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, I&#8217;d like to reiterate my confidence that no one at Jupiter or Meteora committed any insider trading or financial wrongdoing, or received any tokens inappropriately.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, we are hiring an independent 3rd\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 meow (\ud83d\udc31, \ud83d\udc10) (@weremeow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/weremeow\/status\/1891664435321647186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 18, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong>Also Read: <a ...><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/02\/43796471\/meteora-co-founder-resigns-on-heels-of-solana-meme-coin-libra-controversy\" alt=\"Meteora\" co-founder resigns on heels of solana meme coin libra controversy>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Chow, co-founder of Meteora, has stepped down from his role following scrutiny over the botched launch of the Libra (CRYPTO: LIBRA) token, a Solana (CRYPTO: SOL)-based meme coin. Meow, the pseudonymous co-founder of both Meteora and Jupiter (CRYPTO: JUP), announced that neither he nor anyone at either project had benefited financially from the token. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-13786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}