TreasureDAO engineer alleged to have past involvement in questionable NFT projects

On Wednesday, decentralized finance, oregon DeFi, detective @zachxbt published a agelong thread astir TreasureDAO's frontend technologist Just Cheese, oregon JC, and his alleged past engagement successful respective nonfungible tokens, oregon NFTs, projects. According to its whitepaper, TreasureDAO is simply a "decentralized NFT ecosystem connected Arbitrum that is built specifically for metaverse projects." Listed projects usage the ecosystem's autochthonal token MAGIC for transactions, with TreasureDAO governing the emanation of MAGIC. 

As told by zachxbt, the communicative began erstwhile JC shared his wallet code successful the TreasureDAO discord past November. The DeFi detective past claimed to person backtraced a cardinal bid of inflows, totaling 134.66 ETH, into JC's wallet to respective NFT/token projects, including but not constricted to Mutant Cats, ZombieToadz, and Yuta/YYYY — each projects that zachxbt accidental went quiescent aft launch.

In an authoritative announcement successful the TreasureDAO Discord, the task squad offered the pursuing explanation:

"From what we understand, Cheese did immoderate UI/FE enactment for a fewer projects created by these atrocious actors connected a declaration ground portion breaking into web3, but they abandoned the projects agelong aft he'd already delivered and had been paid for his work. The DAO cannot remark connected the details of the enactment arsenic it was extracurricular of Treasure."

The squad went connected to say:

"We tin remark connected [JC's] his efforts portion astatine Treasure which has been amazing, contributing to each the UI/FE for TreasureDAO sites and products to date."

zachxbt is known successful the blockchain assemblage for his forensic methods successful investigating the past behaviour of blockchain developers. Last month, the DeFi detective alleged that Michael Patryn, co-founder of defunct Canadian crypto speech QuadrigaCX, was moving DeFi task Wonderland's treasury arsenic its anonymous main fiscal officer. Users' opinions connected the substance stay divided connected societal media, with @cryptopantone, TreasureDAO's "evangelist" and moderator tweeting:

Summary: JC worked arsenic developer for different projects before, got paid for it, those projects failed, past joined Treasure and helped gathering 1 of the astir absorbing projects successful the abstraction run? Ok ty; let’s determination on. Maybe you tin gully a diagram of each Treasure related projects?

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

Meanwhile, Josh11#3105, a subordinate of TreasureDAO's authoritative Discord, attempted to item the value of accountability for the project, writing:

"Seriously, but tin we usage DAO funds to wage Zach [zachxbt] to bash an interior inheritance cheque connected each squad members' wallets truthful we tin woody with everything in-house and get each the bullshit done and dusted astatine erstwhile truthful we tin determination forward?"