Developer ‘taken hostage’ to pump new Solana token
A new Crypto project claims to have taken its own developer hostage and is threatening to kill him unless the currency’s market cap reaches $1 million. Solana token ‘Hostage Dev’ is being promoted on X (formerly Twitter) using a live stream purporting to show a hostage that the team has kidnapped. The ‘ hostage ’ can be seen bound and bagged in a nondescript room holding a cardboard placard that reads, “Please, let’s go to 1milly mcap or else I’m dead.” Other tweets from the Hostage Dev X account read “Guess who’s not going to sleep today? #HOSTAGE,” and “Dev completely knocked out on the stream? We don’t care.” “Please, let’s go to 1milly mcap or else I’m dead.” The look of the Hostage Dev website is based on so-called ‘Wojack’ memes and traditional ‘cut-out’ ransom notes, and reads “ We have your developer! If you want us to free him you need to pump chart to 1,000,000 marketcap .” The Hostage Dev token currently h...