Crypto secrecy makes DeFi a financial felon’s Wonderland


Tokens related to the Avalanche blockchain-based protocol, one of the larger community-governed DeFi applications since its launch in September, have tumbled in value in the last 24 hours. — AFP

A decentralised-finance project called Wonderland is being rocked by controversy following the disclosure that it was being run in part by a felon with ties to one of the biggest cryptocurrency scandals.

Tokens related to the Avalanche blockchain-based protocol, one of the larger community-governed DeFi applications since its launch in September, have tumbled in value in the last 24 hours. Co-founder Daniele Sestagalli said Thursday that he asked Wonderland’s treasury head, who goes by the pseudonym Sifu or 0xSifu, to step down. The statement came after an anonymous Twitter user unmasked Sifu as Michael Patryn, a co-founder of the failed Canadian crypto exchange QuadrigaCX. Patryn couldn’t immediately be reached for comment.

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