AC once said that DeFi is more important than life, but left his empire anyway

The most well-known KOL in the DeFi industry may really quit the encryption industry this time.

On March 6, Anton Nell, senior solution architect of Fantom, posted on his personal social media platform that YFI founders Andre Cronje (AC) and Anton Nell decided not to continue to contribute to the DeFi and Crypto fields, and at the same time The 25 protocols developed by the two will cease operations on April 3.

As the top carrier in the industry, we can hear rumors that AC is leaving from time to time, but unlike before, this time it seems more real.

In the encryption industry, AC is associated with too many well-known applications, such as Yearn Finance and Keep3r Network, which have pushed DeFi to a climax, Pickle and Cream, which have brought a merger wave, and Solidly, which has triggered Vampair War. AC already has its own DeFi empire, DeFi Every track has AC's presence.

Stani Kulechov, founder of lending protocol Aave, once said: “I learned a lot from this man. What would the industry be without him?”

AC himself once said, "DeFi makes me ignore my life, my health, my mind. I have to put it first."

Perhaps the dissatisfaction with the Solidly community became the last straw. The most creative experimental designer of DeFi, it only took a few days to log out of Twitter and confirm the exit.



From a telecom company employee to a big V in the encryption industry


AC, who was born in South Africa, is not a technical background. He studied law at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. By chance, a friend of AC who was doing experiments related to computer science just needed help, and the enthusiastic AC participated. Unexpectedly, I was very interested in this course, and then I took the relevant courses by myself.

After AC managed to finish the course ahead of schedule, just in time for one of the lecturers on the "Lecturer" team to resign, he then took the opportunity to become a course lecturer. It was also from this time that he stepped into the field of computer science step by step.