TreasureDAO engineer alleged to have past involvement in questionable NFT projects

On Wednesday, decentralized finance, or DeFi, detective @zachxbt published a protracted thread about TreasureDAO’s frontend engineer Simply Cheese, or JC, and his alleged previous involvement in a number of nonfungible token, or NFT, initiatives. Based on its whitepaper, TreasureDAO is a “decentralized NFT ecosystem on Arbitrum that’s constructed particularly for metaverse initiatives.” Listed initiatives use the ecosystem’s native token MAGIC for transactions, with TreasureDAO governing the emission of MAGIC. 

As informed by zachxbt, the story started when JC shared his pockets deal with within the TreasureDAO Discord final November. The DeFi detective then claimed to have backtraced a key collection of inflows, totaling 134.66 Ether (ETH), into JC’s pockets to a number of NFT/token initiatives, together with however not restricted to Mutant Cats, ZombieToadz and Yuta/YYYY — all initiatives that zachxbt say went quiet after launch.

In an official announcement within the TreasureDAO Discord, the venture staff supplied the next rationalization:

“From what we perceive, Cheese did some UI/FE work for a number of initiatives created by these unhealthy actors on a contract foundation whereas breaking into web3, however they deserted the initiatives lengthy after he’d already delivered and had been paid for his work. The DAO can not touch upon the small print of the work because it was outdoors of Treasure.”

The staff went on to say:

“We will touch upon [JC’s] his efforts whereas at Treasure, which has been wonderful, contributing to all of the UI/FE for TreasureDAO websites and merchandise to this point.”

zachxbt is thought within the blockchain group for his forensic strategies in investigating the previous conduct of blockchain builders. Final month, the DeFi detective alleged that Michael Patryn, co-founder of defunct Canadian crypto alternate QuadrigaCX, was operating DeFi venture Wonderland’s treasury as its nameless chief monetary officer. Customers’ opinions on the matter stay divided on social media, with @cryptopantone, TreasureDAO’s “evangelist” and moderator tweeting:

Abstract: JC labored as developer for different initiatives earlier than, bought paid for it, these initiatives failed, then joined Treasure and helped constructing one of the crucial attention-grabbing initiatives within the house run? Okay ty; let’s transfer on. Possibly you’ll be able to draw a diagram of all Treasure associated initiatives?

— fritten.eth (,) (@cryptopantone) February 23, 2022

In the meantime, Josh11#3105, a member of TreasureDAO’s official Discord, tried to spotlight the significance of accountability for the venture, writing:

“Significantly, however can we use DAO funds to pay Zach [zachxbt] to do an inner background verify on all staff members’ wallets so we are able to cope with every thing in-house and get all of the bullshit achieved and dusted directly so we are able to transfer ahead?”