I am a representative of the victims of the zkasino exit scam, asking LIDO DAO to consider helping/freezing funds of the scammers. Not sure if it is possible.
- What happened?
Between March 16th and April 20th, derivatives_ape and xbt_prometheus with their zkasino_io account on twitter asked people to contribute to a “bridge to earn” scheme for the launch of their Zkasino Eigen Stack L2. It was stated on the website, in the documents, on twitter and even said by both founders in a Twitter space that anyone staking would receive their staked ETH back 1:1 on mainnet after a 30 day period, as well as rewards in ZKAS. They even mentioned well known CT accounts had invested and managed to trick apeterminal into an IDO and MexC into a listing announcement.
When the timer ran out, the team changed the deals and announced that instead of returning the ETH, they would “convert” them into ZKAS and launched an Arbitrum Nitro L3 that has no use and no liquidity instead of the promised L2. They then proceeded to move the funds from the bridge address 0x9144E18C28338516f0ACe99Bc88DE34aaE59Be45 to a new address also governed by the same signatories at 0x7911FeA7b36Fbd58a771bbf907aAd2ef4BDCC491, where the funds are currently (April 25th) sitting in the form of $wstETH.
This scam has 10,000 victims who lost $30m+.
- What we ask?
We ask that LIDO DAO help us in recovering the funds any way they can. After all, the scammers are using your good name and protocol to earn money and we assume nobody here likes to be tool for criminals.
We do not know whether you can factually freeze or withhold rewards from wrapped lido staked eth. However, as you will appreciate, we are looking for any help possible and hoping that you can help in some way. We cannot leave one opportunity untouched.
- Full dossier of evidence: https:// drive dot google dot com/drive/folders/1-4hK2BBt5xjAeGC9rlkCtcBFrlwFJwMk
Side point: criminal cases are filed in numerous countries, but we all know the only fast resolution is the funds being frozen somewhere and paid back to the original depositors.
Thank you for your consideration.