Cryptocurrency protocol cofounder was a serial scammer
 

Sifu outed

Crypto Investors have been shocked to discover that the co-founder of a multi-billion dollar cryptocurrency protocol a serial scammer with a record of conviction and deportation, and co-founded of a fraudulent Canadian exchange that imploded.

Twitter user who goes by zachxbt.eth "with a track record of unmasking crypto scams and nefarious behaviour" outted "Sifu," a core member of the founding team behind the popular Avalanche-based Wonderland DeFi (or decentralized finance) protocol and its TIME token, of being Michael Patryn.

Patryn, who changed his legal name twice, was the co-founder of QuadrigaCX, a Canadian exchange that shut down after Patryn's partner Gerald Cotten suddenly died in India in 2018 while owing users around $190 million in crypto at the time's exchange rate.

Patryn and Cotten parted ways in 2016. Later, investigators determined that Cotten was operating QuadrigaCX as a Ponzi scheme near the end of its life.

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