2025-01-30 12:47:33

Sonic Founder Andre Cronje Says SEC Harassment Forced Him To Quit Crypto in 2022

The founder of layer-1 blockchain Sonic (S) is speaking up about his decision to step away from crypto in 2022, two years after launching the decentralized finance (Defi) platform Yearn Finance (YFI). In a post on Medium, Andre Cronje says he stopped his public engagement with DeFi because of regulatory pressure. He says it all […] The post Sonic Founder Andre Cronje Says SEC Harassment Forced Him To Quit Crypto in 2022 appeared first on The Daily Hodl.
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