When a new cryptocurrency is unleashed on the world, a fun experiment is to play the game real or scam. And that’s what we’ll be doing with the brand-new Talking Ben crypto token.

Now, sometimes this is an easy game. Other times it’s not. When we first got wind of the Solana crypto token, we dove deep into its whitepaper and liked what we saw. Its development team had a well-defined plan for the future. And it solved some issues that were plaguing the industry.

Solana directly addressed scalability issues. It provided lower transaction costs. And it provided a faster transaction speed than any other blockchain on the market at the time. To be fair, the Bitgert crypto token has since eclipsed Solana’s speed record. Nonetheless, it was pretty clear than Solana was legit from the get-go.

Then there are other tokens that don’t provide much of a use case. And it’s doubly concerning when a new token appears to be capitalizing off some other trend. See the now infamous Squid Game crypto as an example of this.

Squid Game crypto was pitched as an in-game token for a to-be-launched game. That game never quite materialized. And the creators made off with millions in a classic rug pull. Now, in the case of the Talking Ben crypto token, we see something similar.

There is no use case yet. But there is the promise of it playing a part in community events rewarding NFTs, future airdrops and BNB rewards. Right now, we’re in the first stage of this token’s development. Again,…