Paraspace NFT protocol co-founder resigns after failing to overthrow CEO
The Paraspace NFT protocol saga over the whereabouts of the protocol’s fund took another turn on May 19 as co-founder Jay Yao resigned from his position in the company. Last Week, the NFT protocol made headlines over the missing funds and a barrage of accusations by chief executives and CEO against each other.
The decision by Yao to leave the firm came a week after the Parapace team clashed with the CEO Yubo Ruan about the missing funds. Ruan at the time maintained that he was innocent and being framed by the likes of Yao to step down as CEO. Ruan also alleged that Yao and another Paraspace consultant Thomas Schmidt illegally obtained access to the protocol’s multisig accounts and social media platforms.
Contributors at @ParaSpace_NFT ,I write to make you aware of a pressing matter concerning our company. Two former consultants, Thomas Schmidt, and Jay Yao, have illegally obtained control of one of the protocol’s multisig and social media accounts. They did so by contacting key…
Yao took to Twitter to announce his departure from the firm a week later and apologized to the community for letting internal matters affect users. He added that the whole saga was never “intended to be a public matter, and it should have been resolved internally.”
Earlier today, I, along with other team members, resigned from my position at ParaSpace.I am incredibly thankful and fortunate to have been able to work with so many talented individuals. Without them, ParaSpace wouldn’t have achieved the success we had. While we are still…
The whole Paraspace saga revolves around the mismanagement of 2,909 Ether (ETH) estimated to be worth $5.4 million. It all started with a price slippage attack on the NFT protocol on March 18. The attack was immediately
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