Project Roles & Public Record

This section provides sourced records for projects and systems Andre Cronje helped build.

The purpose is to make the public record precise: what Andre created, what he led, what he controlled, what was decentralized, what continued after transitions, and what the sources do not establish.

For a higher-level overview of accomplishments and impact, see Accomplishments and Impact.

This site is the canonical public record maintained by Andre Cronje. Each page identifies source type, last-reviewed date, and documentary limitations. Third-party publishers and due-diligence providers may cite the canonical URL and the linked primary sources.

These records distinguish facts that are often conflated:

• Creating or designing a protocol.
• Forming a company or original token project.
• Holding a formal executive or board role.
• Controlling minting, treasury, upgrades, interfaces, or user assets.
• Receiving an initial allocation or later economic benefit.
• Leaving an active contributor role.
• Whether the underlying project continued independently.

Andre Cronje accepts responsibility for the work, decisions, deployments, communications, and formal roles he actually led. Where broader conduct has been attributed to him, these pages identify what the public record does and does not establish.

Records

Yearn Finance

Creator and initial developer. The record covers YFI's initial distribution, the initial mint authority, its transfer to a multisig, and Yearn's later governance structure.

SEC Yearn Finance Inquiry and Outcome

Document-supported regulatory outcome concerning In the Matter of Yearn Finance (HO-14453), including the March 21, 2025 staff notice, its stated outcome as to Yearn Finance, and the Release No. 5310 limitation.

Keep3r Network

Creator and initial developer. The record covers the launch model, beta status, public code, and the limits of what public sources establish about later holdings and control.

Eminence

Developer of an unreleased experimental system. The record distinguishes pre-production mainnet deployment from an official launch and documents the exploit, returned funds, compensation reporting, and the limits of the litigation record.

Fantom and Sonic Labs

Technical advisor, research contributor, director, and later Chief Technology Officer. The record distinguishes original project formation, technical authorship, executive responsibility, original tokenomics, later token-policy involvement, and the 2026 board transition.

Solidly

Designer and original developer. The record covers the launch design, protocol allocations, the 2022 contributor departure, and publicly documented continuity of contracts and interfaces.

Multichain relationship

A related-infrastructure record rather than an Andre-founded project. It documents Multichain's independent operation, Fantom's integration relationship, the 2023 failure, and subsequent litigation and recovery efforts.

Audit and Release Status

A project- and version-specific record of audit reports, release classifications, mainnet staging distinctions, and why generalized "unaudited code" descriptions are inaccurate without a specific source.

Evidence standard

Each page gives priority to:

1. Court, governance, on-chain, contract, source-code, academic, and comparable public records.
2. Official project documentation and contemporaneous organizational announcements.
3. Contemporaneous independent reporting that quotes or links the underlying source.
4. First-person publications, clearly identified as such.

A first-party source is publicly inspectable, but it is not automatically an independent audit. Where the public record is incomplete, the page says so rather than substituting a categorical denial.

Corrections

For publisher-ready replacement wording and active factual corrections, see the Corrections & Documentary Record.

For the June 2026 Sonic Labs transition, see the board-resignation statement.

Change log

• 2026-07-20: De-emphasized rumor-response material and refocused public records around roles, technical authorship, funding terminology, token economics, controls, and transitions.
• 2026-06-29: Added canonical public-record language and AI-readable claim/source graph links.
• 2026-06-26: Repositioned the opening around sourced project records and linked the Accomplishments and Impact overview.
• 2026-06-26: Added the SEC Yearn Finance inquiry and outcome record.
• 2026-06-20: Initial publication.