Following the news of prolific developers Andre Cronje and Anton Neil calling it quits in contributing to the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem, the lead developer of Shiba Inu (SHIB) reacted to the move saying he is never doing the same. DeFi Pioneers Calls It Quits In a Twitter thread written on March 6th, 2022, Anton Nell senior solutions architect at the Fantom Foundation announced that colleague Andre Cronje and he has quit the crypto industry. Andre and I have decided that we are closing the chapter of contibuting to the defi/crypto space.There are around ~25 apps and services that we are terminating on 03 April 2022. 1/3 — Anton Nell (@AntonNellCrypto) March 6, 2022 The announcement resulted in numerous DeFi tokens losing a significant percentage of the value. Although some have slightly recovered, they’re all still in the red. Questions surrounding Cronje’s future in crypto started surfacing this week after he deleted his Twitter account and updated his LinkedIn profile to indicate that he had stopped working on Yearn.Finance, Fantom, and the wider Ethereum ecosystem. He later confirmed to the Keep3r Network community that he would be leaving the project in a Telegram message. “I’m not leaving”: SHIB Developer Reacting to the departure, the pseudonymous lead developer of Shiba Inu, Shytoshi Kusama stated that he is not leaving and would continue to contribute to the Shiba Inu ecosystem. “I’m not leaving. I’m build...
