Autopsy report

Wonderland

TIME | DAO / Olympus fork
Collapse of trustDied Jan 2022Status: zombie

An OlympusDAO fork advertising extreme APYs. In January 2022 its anonymous treasury manager, 0xSifu, was identified in reporting as a co-founder of the collapsed QuadrigaCX exchange. Trust evaporated and the TIME token fell sharply.

After the fall: The protocol and token kept existing in reduced form after the scandal.

Missed warning signs
  1. 1-3mo
  2. 2-3mo
  3. 3-2mo
  4. XDeath

Spacing is ordinal, not to scale. Numbers match the list below.

  1. 1

    The treasury was run by an anonymous figure with no track record.

    Visible 3 months before death | Anonymous team

    Onchain AtlasCoinDesk

  2. 2

    It advertised an APY in the tens of thousands of percent.

    Visible 3 months before death | Yield with no source

    Onchain AtlasCryptorum

  3. 3

    Treasury value leaned heavily on the project's own token.

    Visible 2 months before death | Backed by its own token

    Onchain Atlas

The lesson

An anonymous treasury manager is a rug wearing a title.

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