Notable figures in the decentralized finance (DeFi) community found themselves in hot water after joining a group to cook up a MEME-inspired token with the apparent intention of dumping on unsuspecting investors. Group members claim the whole thing was just a joke that’s been taken the wrong way.
Leaked chat logs indicate that the FEW token ‘experiment’ was conceived by Idea Markets’ co-founder Sam Ratnaker, who started the Telegram group for the project on September 22. EthHub’s Anthony Sassano, Rocket NFT’s Alex Masmej, and Twitter user ‘DeFi Dude’ were amon among those invited to the channel.