为什么我在2022年离开Defi

对于那些可能不知道的人，回到2022年，我离开了Defi；这与某些“ defi sucks in defi sucks”的帖子或任何值得注意的内容并不是一致的，我只是停止发布或参与任何公共设置。

Andre Cronje, the founder of Yearn Finance and Fantom Foundation, has revealed that he stepped away from DeFi in 2022 due to pressure from the SEC.

Yearn Finance and Fantom Foundation的创始人Andre Cronje透露，由于SEC的压力，他于2022年离开Defi。

Cronje, who is known for his contributions to the DeFi space, had launched Yearn Finance in Jan 2020 without raising any money, selling any tokens, or engaging in any activity that could be considered a breach of any country’s securities laws. He also did not earn any fees from the protocol and had no founder, team or any allocation, or any financial benefit of the protocol for himself.

克朗杰（​​Cronje）以对Defi Space的贡献而闻名，他于2020年1月启动了渴望的金融，而没有筹集任何资金，出售任何代币或从事任何可能被视为违反任何国家证券法的活动。他也没有从协议中获得任何费用，也没有创始人，团队或任何分配，也没有该协议对自己的任何经济利益。

Despite taking these measures to ensure he was staying on the right side of regulatory requirements, Cronje received his first SEC letter in 2021. The letter was a simple request for more information on YFI, including whether he had raised any funds, who the investors were, and who was receiving profits. Cronje complied with the request and provided as much information as he could.

尽管采取了这些措施，以确保他留在监管要求的右边，但克罗尼在2021年收到了他的第一封SEC信。这封信是简单地要求提供有关YFI的更多信息，包括他是否筹集了任何资金，投资者是谁，谁在获得利润。 Cronje遵守了该请求，并提供了尽可能多的信息。

However, the collection exercise alone took Cronje weeks of real time and effort to be able to give them the detail they requested, often having to spend hours of research to find data he did not immediately have on hand. He thought that would be the end of it.

但是，仅收集练习就花费了Cronje数周的实时和精力，才能为他们提供他们要求的细节，通常不得不花费数小时的研究才能找到他没有立即拥有的数据。他认为这将是结局。

But then came letter two, at which point it became clear that Cronje needed legal assistance as the tone was changing. The way I had done all my projects (no incorporation’s, no entities, no raises, etc) it meant two things; 1. I had no legal counsel or legal network, 2. I did not have the funds required to really engage.

但是后来又是字母第二，这一点很明显，随着语调的变化，克朗杰需要法律援助。我完成所有项目的方式（没有成立，没有实体，没有加薪等），这意味着两件事； 1。我没有法律顾问或法律网络，2。我没有真正参与的资金。

Cronje started asking around in groups he knew and thankfully LexNode aka Gabriel came to the rescue and also introduced me to Stephen Palley, both of whom helped me immensely and charging me extremely reasonable costs. To this day I am infinitely grateful.

克朗杰开始以他认识的小组询问，值得庆幸的是，勒克斯诺德（Lexnode）又名加布里埃尔（Gabriel）来营救，还向我介绍了斯蒂芬·帕利（Stephen Palley），他们俩都极大地帮助了我，并向我收取了非常合理的费用。直到今天，我深表感谢。

The letters kept coming, every-time pivoting to a new angle of attack, it started “investigating” me from the angle of a raise and SEC violation (which again, as a non USA citizen or resident who did not sell anything to USA citizens or residents confused me), as I spent weeks and months of my life trying collect information and answer their questions (often requesting data I simply did not have, but was required to provide), the drain on my time, energy, and resources became apparent.

这些信件不断到来，每次旋转到新的攻击角度，都开始从加薪和违反SEC的角度“调查”我（这再次是作为非美国公民或居民，他们没有向美国公民出售任何东西或者居民感到困惑），因为我花了数周和几个月的时间尝试收集信息并回答他们的问题（通常要求我根本没有，但需要提供数据），我的时间，精力和资源的流失就变成了显而易见。

At this point, Cronje was practically forced to completely stop development or R&D, and focus solely on this legal and regulatory battle. As the letters kept flowing, it changed from “investigating” the raise, and when it became apparent that was not an angle of attack it shifted to focusing on the yearn vaults themselves as “investment vehicles”, since the vaults accept third party deposits, “does work”, and then the depositors receive benefit from “the work of others”.

在这一点上，Cronje实际上被迫完全停止开发或研发，而仅专注于这场法律和监管之战。随着信件的流动，它从“调查”加薪中发生了变化，当显然这不是攻击角度时，它转变为专注于渴望自身的“投资工具”，因为保险柜接受第三方存款， “确实有工作”，然后存款人从“他人的工作”中受益。

At this point, Cronje had to start proving he was not receiving any benefit, and that all benefits were being returned to the users, At this point, I had to start proving I was not receiving any benefit, all benefits were being returned to the users, etc. All in all this took 2 years of my life and finally culminated in a point where I was essentially given a choice.

在这一点上，克罗尼必须开始证明他没有得到任何利益，并且所有利益都将被返还给用户，此时，我必须开始证明我没有得到任何利益，所有利益都将返回给用户等。总的来说，所有这些都花了2年的时间，最后在我可以选择的地方达到了最终达到顶峰。

Cronje was given the choice to either keep trying to build things for free, without receiving any benefit, and spending hours of his energy and time to release this code into the wild, while needing to constantly face these attacks and have to spend months of his life and real money to defend it—or he could choose to step away. After 2 years of needing to deal with this every month, and endless sleepless nights and stress. I chose the latter.

克朗杰（​​Cronje）可以选择继续尝试免费建造东西，而无需获得任何好处，并花费数小时的精力和时间将此代码释放到野外，同时需要不断面对这些攻击，不得不花几个月的时间捍卫它的生活和真钱，或者他可以选择走开。经过2年的时间，每个月都需要处理此问题，以及无尽的夜晚和压力。我选择了后者。

Cronje chose to step away, and his last few posts were all around regulatory DeFi. Most people did not actually read these articles and only saw the headline “crypto regulation”, which led them to assume that Cronje had become a fed. However, for those that did read it, they would have seen that I had defined two verticals, crypto regulation (impossible for decentralized smart contracts simply running in the wild, and trying to regulate it is only possible by “chasing the builders away” [which they had successfully done with me]), and regulated crypto (which is things like exchanges, brokers, etc, which are offchain third party).

克罗尼（Cronje）选择走开，他的最后几个职位都在监管范围内。大多数人实际上并未阅读这些文章，而只是看到了标题“加密法规”，这使他们假设Cronje已经成为美联储。但是，对于那些确实阅读过的人来说，他们会看到我定义了两个垂直行业，即加密法规（对于仅在野外运行的分散式智能合约来说，不可能通过“将构建者赶走” [可能是可能的，而是可以进行调节[他们与我成功完成了这一点），并受到监管加密货币（例如交换，经纪人等，是偏僻的第三方）。

Knowing the above, go read the article again, and I think it will give you a better understanding on why I wrote it.

了解上述内容，再次阅读文章，我认为这将使您更好地了解我为什么写它。

Given the new direction of the SEC, I finally figured I can actually write about this, as previously I was strongly advised by those same investigators to not mention the investigation or it could escalate things.

鉴于SEC的新方向，我终于认为我实际上可以写这件事，因为那些相同的调查人员强烈建议我不提调查，否则可能会升级。

It was a challenging, and incredibly stressful time. And I do not wish any of my fellow builders should have gone through something like that.

这是一个具有挑战性且令人难以置信的压力时间。而且我不希望我的任何同行建筑商都应该经历这样的事情。

I look forward to the future and a new decentralized world we can build.

我期待未来和我们可以建立的新的分散世界。