Influencer Haliey [infuriating spelling] Welch, who rose to fame as the "Hawk Tuah" girl from a viral TikTok video last year, became the epicenter of a major controversy after launching a dubious cryptocurrency meme coin called $HAWK in December. The token hit the roof in mere hours, reaching a market cap of almost half a billion dollars, before plummeting back down, leaving investors hanging out to dry. The events cemented it as yet another classic pump-and-dump, something that has become a far too common fixture in the crypto world, which remains largely unregulated. In the months since, and following an […]