A piece of news broke out on January 19th that affected Wonderland, a financial DAO where users can earn compound interest. The CFO Michael Patryn is the subject of a lot of speculation.
An important person behind Wonderland is accused of taking $8.4 million worth of TIME tokens out from the treasury. Since the launch of this news, the price of TIME has decreased 72%. Therefore, in this article, you will discover everything about this strange fact.
Fact Timeline
Michael Patryn also called “Sifu”, is a very important person behind Wonderland which, from one moment to another, took out 4.25k TIME tokens from Wonderland’s treasures. These funds went directly to his private wallet without asking anyone on the DAO.
According to him, he added those TIME tokens as collateral for a personal investment to prevent liquidation. However, he couldn’t avoid this situation.
But, how could this happen? Every protocol has a % of tokens that are initially allocated for the team when a project starts. According to Messari, most DeFi dApps projects take around 10-20% of their total supply to their team and in Wonderland, the team had 5%.
That 5% of TIME tokens is equal to 44,483 TIME tokens which nowadays are worth $17.4 million. Therefore, Sifu took 10% of the team’s allocation tokens for his expenses.
Is Michael Patryn Guilty or Not?
Martin Patryn has participated in controversial situations, which we’ll try to summarize some of them:
- Co-Founder of QuadrigaCX: This was a Canadian centralized exchange founded in 2013, where its chief executive died at 30 years old caused health issues. As a result, the users couldn’t access their assets valued at $250 million anymore.
- ID Documents: Patryn, who is accused of taking the name of “Omar Dhanani” when he lived in the United States, was founded guilty in 2005 in court to try to trafficked stolen credit cards and identities.
- Pleaded Guilty of some charges: After 18 months in prison in 2007, he has pleaded guilty to very important charges
On the other hand, there are other opinions in Twitter that say that he only took 10% of the total Team’s token allocation. As a result, this small took out won’t have any bad effect on Wonderland’s tokenomics. Therefore, these TIME tokens are part of his compensation for working there.
Michael Patryn Might Get out of Wonderland
Now after a few days in which the news has gone viral on crypto Twitter, the community in wonderland has reacted and will have a governance voting proposal to decide the permanence of “Sifu” in the organization.
Moreover, according to the tweet above, a Wonderland member said that any decision related to the token allocation needs to be canceled. Also, that person said that Wonderland’s team is working on launching new products and making the protocol surpass this situation.
