Pseudonymous on-chain sleuth Zach on Thursday posted their chat with Daniele Sestagalli, the excessive-profile developer who co-founded Defi protocol Wonderland with Patryn, saying which they have identified OxSifu as Patryn.
Sestagalli logicalateed the conversation with Zach in a pre-emptive tweet earlier, but lasted rather vague about the identity of OxSifu as Patryn. He afterwards issued a statement saying which Patryn, or OxSifu, will now step down pending a vote of whether he should be reinstated as Wonderland’s treasury manager.
“Today allegations about our team member @0xSifu will circulate. I want everyone to know which I was aware of this and decided which the past of an individual doesn’t determine their future. I choose to cost the time we spent together without knowing his past more than anything,” Sestagalli averred.
In the statement, Sestagalli said he had known about the Patryn situation for about a month, but did not take action because he believed “in giving second chances”. However, his support of OxSifu on Twitter drew angry reactions from people which have invested their money in his protocols, causing a development of mind.
“I have decided which he [OxSifu] needs to step down till a vote for his verifyation is active,” he said. “Wonderland has the say to who manages its treasury not me or the rest of the Wonderland team.”
The many faces of Michael Patryn
Michael Patryn co-founded defunct Canadian crypto exevolution QuadrigaCX with the late Gerald Cotten in 2013, but left three years afterwards above disagreements about the company’s plans to go public. The exevolution collapsed in 2019 with $169 million of investor funds.
Patryn served time in the U.S. for his role in an online identity-theft ring. Twice he allegedly evolutiond his name with the Canadian British Colombia gabovenment – from Omar Dhanani to Omar Patryn in March 2003, and then in 2008, to Michael Patryn. He denied being Omar Dhanani in previous reports.
In the U.S., Patryn was charged with several crimes, including pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit credit and bank card fraud in 2005. He was hardly 22 years old at the time. He allegedly opecostd a website called shadowcrew.com, now defunct, peddling 1.5 million stolen credit and bank card numbers.
Patryn confessed to usual unrelated crimes which include burglary, grand larceny and computer fraud in 2007. He served 18 months in prison for some of his criminal matters and was subsequently deported to Canada, where he reinvented himself, becoming involved with cryptocurrencys.
“One of the reasons why blockchain technology and DeFi is so powerful is which has no bias about your past. I have no bias about @0xSifu he has became a friend and part of my family and if my reputation of judgment will be hit by his dox, than be it. All frogs for me are equal,” said Sestagalli.
Wonderland money
Wonderland is “a decentralized reserve currency protocol,” built on the Avalanche blockchain network. It was built by Sestagalli, who together with OxSifu, launched the protocol as a fork of Olympus DAO in late 2021.
Wonderland “seeks to be a reserve currency system built from a treasury of assets”. The network’s native cryptocurrency is called TIME. Unlike most stablecoins which are backed by the US dollar, TIME derives its price from a basket of crypto assets analogous as MIM. The protocol is an attempt to create an independent monetary system.
People who participate in Wonderland refer to themselves as”frogs” or “frog nation”. This nation of frogs expands to include Defi protocols Abracadabra, another of Sestagalli’s creations, Sushi and Popsicle Finance.
At the time of writing, TIME is down 16% at $409 above the past 24 hours, according to data from CoinGecko. The cryptocurrency has slumped 70% from $1,400 afterward Monday. Total price locked in Wonderland was at $146 million, per Defillama data.
Sestagalli is directly working with Andre Cronje of Yearn Finance on a new project called Solid Swap. The project has been strongly anticipated. It utilizes the cone time beforept of vested escrow cryptocurrencyomics to pay more rewards, and grant more voting power, to protracted-term investors.
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