YFI’s Andre Cronje disappeared after 'death threats'. Will 'love' bring him b...

YFI’s Andre Cronje disappeared after 'death threats'. Will 'love' bring him b...

Top Yearn Finance developer Andre Cronje has disappeared from social media due to 'death threats' — and now the community is posting 'Love Letters' to entice him back. Yearn Finance (YFI) developer Andre Cronje has dropped out of public view after reportedly receiving 'death threats' from the decentralized finance (DeFi) community and becoming ‘demoralized’.Cronje said he had received a variety of threats after investors raced into his unfinished and unreleased protocol, Eminence (EMN), which was then exploited and drained of $15 million in late September. The incident transpired while....


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Members of the decentralized finance (defi) community are upset with Yearn Finance founder Andre Cronje over the mishap with Cronje’s secret Eminence (EMN) project. The Eminence protocol gathered $15 million before the project was ultimately hacked before the official launch. According to a recent blog post published on Medium, a group of defi community members plan to sue Yearn Finance founder, Andre Cronje, and fork YFI as well. As news.Bitcoin.com recently reported, there’s been a lack of trust in Cronje’s work since an undercover project that didn’t even launch....

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Cronje may have gone silent on Twitter, but it hasn’t stopped people from trying to sue him for the EMN hack. A group of investors is crowdfunding a lawsuit against Yearn.finance (YFI) founder Andre Cronje over the unreleased and unfinished Eminence (EMN) protocol and its hack.In a post, the group EMN Investigation said it is raising money to sue Cronje, Yearn developer ‘banteg,’ and Twitter user and Yearn supporter Blue Kirby. The group said 100% of the donations would be used to finance the lawsuit. Crowdfunding will end on November 9. The group added: “As a way to thank you for your....