LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 21: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong appears on stage at the 2014 TechCrunch . Namely, the deployer was an early participant in the DeFi experiment SushiSwap and also clearly had a connection to a wallet affiliated with Sam Bankman-Fried’s company Alameda Research. In 2016, I had the opportunity to interview Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum, when ether was just $12, and has been following the crypto scene closely ever since