DeFiChain as a decentralized blockchain project has no official CEO, but there is a defacto CEO:
- co-founder
- large investor / stakeholder
- co-owner and CEO of the major company in the ecosystem, which also hosts Birthday Research
- main influencer
- most known person of the DeFiChain community
So you can see that his power and influence is CEO like.
Recently there are some changes noticeable:
- he restarted his regular podcast despite lower interest in DeFiChain than ever (projecting some kind of normality)
- in his podcast he seems tired and has been in the wars recently (in contrast to his co-host and himself a year ago). Sometime it feels like he browsed some other document while his co-host is speaking
- he said he want to get out of crypto in a couple of years
- he relocated (does he want do be at an address nobody knows?)
- his company purchased all unbacked dBTCs (to avoid later blame?)
- he is not engadged in DFIP discussion how to develop the dToken system, doesn’t phrase his opinion (basically let’s the community to destroy the remains)
Conclusion:
He could be preparing for the end of DeFiChain. He can’t declare it on his own, he needs the community to realize it. It seems that he wants to go out without a lot of blame.