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Su Zhu’s $36M mansion transformed into eco-farm post-3AC collapse: Report

The 3AC co-founder purchased the Singaporean bungalow in March 2022, shortly before the hedge fund collapsed.

Crypto businessman and fugitive Su Zhu's $36 million luxury real estate in Singapore has been converted into an eco-farm.

According to recent local media reports, Zhu's residential property in the city-state's upscale Yarwood Avenue has been rebranded as "Yarwood Homestead" and operated by Abundant Cities, a company his wife, Evelyn Tao, co-founded.

Through ecological design and agroecology, the firm transformed the mansion's gardens into a mini farmland, producing vegetables, herbs, fruits, fish, and poultry. In addition, the bungalow's front lawn has been reworked into 36 vegetable gardens, growing okra, spinach, beans, kale, sesame seeds, and radishes. As for the swimming pool, it is now a natural pond containing aquatic plants, streams, and various fish and shrimp. The farm hosts a variety of on-site private gatherings. 

Zhu and his spouse purchased the property in March 2022 for $36 million, shortly before his Singaporean hedge fund, Three Arrows Capital (3AC), collapsed. During the height of the crypto bull market, 3AC reportedly managed over $10 billion in digital assets. The firm filed for bankruptcy in July 2022 following a series of failed leveraged bets on the Terra Luna ecosystem and faces up to $3.5 billion in creditor claims.

On September 29, Cointelegraph reported that Su Zhu was arrested at Singapore's Changyi International Airport while attempting to leave the country after a court granted a committal order. A few days prior, Teneo, 3AC's liquidator was granted its committal request in Singapore, claiming Zhu failed to comply with a court order relating to the recovery of corporate assets. Zhu was sentenced to four months in prison for the violation.

His co-founder, Kyle Davies, a former U.S. citizen who is now a Singaporean national, was also committed to four months in prison. However, Davies' whereabouts remain unknown. Earlier this year, Davies publicly boasted that there were no "pending lawsuits or regulatory action" against him at the time. 

The Yarwood Homestead "Tropical R&D Site".  Source: Abundant Cities

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Gary Gensler is leaving the SEC, but replacement will face scrutiny

Cosmoverse Conference 2021 kicks off in Lisbon

The event connects ATOM stakeholders, developers and enthusiasts from all over the world with the latest developments on the Cosmos blockchain.

The team behind interoperable blockchain network Cosmos (ATOM) recently hosted the Cosmoverse Conference live from Lisbon, Portugal.

Kicking off the two-day event, Zaki Manian, co-founder of decentralized finance, or DeFi, project Sommel and former lead developer at Cosmos and Tendermint (Cosmos network's core contributor), discussed a number of technologies under development by the Cosmos ecosystem.

According to Manian, a development called ABCI ++ will enable the addition of consensus events on other blockchains to the block production process, improving the efficiencies of cross-chain bridges and oracles on the network. Next, developers can use dynamic IBC (dIBC) functionality to introduce governance proposals across different blockchains instead of only IBC token transfers. Thirdl, liquid staking would allow users to stake their ATOM while receiving a derivative of the asset that can be used in DeFi applications. Finally, interchain accounts are meant to help build multichain applications, where decentralized autonomous organizations, or DAOs, on one chain can directly control accounts or wallets on another.

Sunny Aggarwal, co-founder of Osmosis, a decentralized exchange, or DEX, on the Cosmos ecosystem, elaborated on the concept of liquidity staking further during the panel. Aggarwal explained that coin holders could soon earn better yields by simultaneously accessing multiple DeFi pools with the same underlying tokens. He raised the example of users pledging their Osmosis (OSMO) tokens to provide trading liquidity for the exchange, receiving OSMO liquidity provider tokens, and then depositing the same OSMO LP tokens back into a staking pool. So coin holders can harvest the yield in the LP pool and the staking pool all at once.

In another segment, Enrico Talin, co-founder of Commercio.network, claimed to have created the first legally-binding blockchain in the world. Its infrastructure stores encrypted versions of users' personal data, such as vaccine records, driver's licenses, passports, etc. Theoretically, users would be able to send their electronic signature and proof of identity over the blockchain when requested, such as when signing up for a new bank account. The verifier can then confirm, via decentralized consensus, that the signature is genuine and the documents are from a legit issuer.

However, no personal data is exchanged on the blockchain, only their proofs. Talin then discussed the possibility of creating legally binding nonfungible token, or NFT, contracts that confirm the ownership of real-world assets. Later this year, privacy-broadcast features, IBC, and legal document NFTs will all be available on Commercio.network.

Gary Gensler is leaving the SEC, but replacement will face scrutiny