DefiLlama drama emerged Sunday as one of the project’s pseudonymous co-founders directed people to a forked version of the blockchain data platform on Twitter, warning of a hostile takeover sparked by a potential token launch.
“There is an ongoing attempt to launch a token that does not represent us,” said 0xngmi. “We don’t want to be associated with it.”
The DefiLlama team is forking Defillama@Defillama is undergoing a hostile takeover
There is an ongoing attempt to launch a token that does not represent us. We don’t want to be associated with it
Use https://t.co/G0h4uBo2mL and @llamadotfi instead!
— 0xngmi (llamazip arc) (@0xngmi) March 19, 2023
0xngmi said the person with control of DefiLlama’s web domain and Twitter account had made the decision to announce the forthcoming launch of a DefiLlama token, despite internal pushback from the team. The move led 0xngmi to establish the website llama.fi and a corresponding Twitter account, which had gained over 6,000 followers as of Sunday afternoon.
The website closely resembles defillama.com except for the omission of links to a few tools, such as the DefiLlama-branded news website DLNews and Web3 infrastructure service LlamaNodes.
0xLlam4, another pseudonymous co-founder of Defi
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