In March 2026, the SEC settled a three-year case against one of crypto's most powerful operators for ten million dollars and a charge that required only negligence, then dismissed everything else. The people who bought the tokens when the trading looked real got nothing.
BehindMLM's 2026 state of the industry report landed this week, and the numbers inside it describe a world where the same machine keeps getting new paint jobs. Before you forward that invite to someone you love, read what the machine looked like last year.
Ben Pasternak built three consecutive crypto tokens, told investors he had no stake in any of them, and walked away with a platform that processed $6 billion in trades while retail holders were left with coins worth fractions of a cent. This is what the machine looked like from the inside.