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Please take 5 minutes and help report Shuaps to his local sheriff office. https://fultoncountyga.gov/inside-fulton-county/fulton-county-departments/sheriff Please scroll down and fill out the "report a concern" form. Can copy and paste the following info. A small team created and ran a cryptocurrency called Rise Protocol, website riseprotocol.io. Shuaps (as we know him as) was the lead developer for the project. Unfortunately on March 11th, 341.5 eth (roughly 700k USD) was stolen from the users, team, and project. Shuaps was the only person with the keys to do this. Shuaps shortly afterwards refused to help to prove his innocence and deleted his telegram account. Shuaps real name is Shuaipeng "Jimmy" Zhang, living in Atlanta, Georgia. Last known addresses pinpoint him to 2144 Peachtree Road, and 180 Jackson Street. All collected evidence can be found here - https://t.me/riseprotocolscam1

In order to focus on future plans, and distance myself from the countless death threats and hate messages, as well as recover some of my emotional state, I have made the hard decision to delete this Telegram account. I will be creating a new one that will be used to interact with the team to assist them with additional research. I apologize again to everyone for this, this security flaw was my fault. Please do not take your anger on other team members.

OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF EVENTS Rise community, I apologize for my lack of communication for the past 3 days. To see a project that you’ve put hundreds (possibly thousands) of hours of blood, sweat, and tears into get brought down in less than 30 seconds by a malicious actor is nothing short of soul crushing. I’m still in a state of shock and disbelief to this day, but I will try to keep this as professional as possible. I’ve been quiet on the public front in order to focus on figuring out how this attack could have happened. Here’s the sequence of events: February 24 – Dele T. submits an application for a Chainlink/Solidity developer through our web portal. February 24 – A team member notifies me and brings the application to my attention. March 3 – We officially onboard Dele to assist with Chainlink integration. He was paid in ETH, and was on a contract basis. March 8 – Dele requests a screenshare with me in order to walk me through the work and the code he’s done. The screenshare invitation was sent through Cisco WebEx. March 10 – Dele sends me the .sol files in a .zip file for the new rebaser contract via Telegram. I carry out a full AV scan on the .zip file, and it returned clean. I then deployed the new contract, and made the official Chainlink integration announcement. March 11 – Keys to the deployer account were compromised. All liquidity was drained, and Dele deletes his Telegram account along with all communication history with team members. March 11 – Immediately following the attack (I was in a client meeting at the time), I run out to the restroom to communicate with the team and figure out what’s happening. After discussing internally, the only way that access could have been gained was through the computer that I hosted the rebaser script on (the same one that I screenshared with and deployed the contracts from). I remote shutdown the computer that was compromised in order to stop any further activity from occurring. This computer was on 24/7 in order to run our automated rebase script. March 12 – I return home and boot up the compromised computer. I’m immediately hit with the blue screen of death (critical process died). I repaired Windows through a re-install (keep my files option). Once in, I realize that a majority of the files I previously held on the computer were deleted. This includes the private key file and the .zip file for the deployment. Let me start by saying that exposing us to this risk, and not doing my due diligence on security was 100% my fault. No one else on the team should be blamed. The computer that was attacked was mine, and no other team member has access to this. After research and discussion with the team, here’s how I believe the attack was carried out: Dele was able to obtain my IP address through the Cisco WebEx screenshare. There’s a tool that allows connecting IPs made to be visible. The .zip file contained some kind of backdoor that must have allowed him to connect to my computer. Utilizing my IP and the backdoor, he was able to access my computer. This attack was not of my doing. I'm anon and could have easily disappeared with the rest of the funds, but I'm just as shocked and in disbelief as you all are. About $40,000 have been spent on marketing efforts, and Chainlink integration was just completed. Were my intentions malicious, I could have easily exited with the full amount of ETH raised from the presale a month ago. This project was something I was fully and 100% devoted to. I wanted to see it succeed more than anyone. I was ecstatic when Dele first told me that the initial integration was complete. I wanted to deploy it ASAP in order to stimulate the market and prevent the sell-off that might have happened from the release of seed investor tokens. Unfortunately, my excitement to announce and deploy this resulted in the security flaw which led to our subsequent attack.

Rise Protocol Integrates With Chainlink's Decentralized Oracle Networks Written by: Shuaps We are proud to announce that we have successfully integrated with Chainlink's Decentralized Oracle Networks to bring tamperproof, on-chain price reference data to Rise Protocol. This development effort was originally slotted for a Q3 2021 release, but our developers were able t... Read the full story: https://riseprotocol.io/rise-protocol-integrates-with-chainlinks-decentralized-oracle-networks/?feed_id=116&_unique_id=60497f1310897

Internal AMA Saturday 13th March 20:00 UTC We will be hosting an internal AMA in our main chat this Saturday at 20:00 UTC. Please submit any questions or comments to our telegram bot. The team will put together a list of questions from those submitted and have them answered live in our main telegram group. We will then open up the floor for further questions and comments, with a chance to win some free Rise tokens. @RiseProtocolBot See you on Saturday!

RISE GOVERNANCE IS NOW LIVE! 1. To join the exclusive Governance Telegram channel, please ensure you hold at least 300 RISE, then click on the following link. Your wallet balance will be validated to ensure you hold the minimum requirement. 2. Website has been updated with a new page with detailed governance information: https://riseprotocol.io/governance-info. 3. Request for Governance Proposal Form is now available. This can be found at https://riseprotocol.io/governance-info. 4. Rise Governance Portal. Do not hesitate to reach out to any team member for questions about governance. We are incredibly excited to be able to release this highly awaited feature 3 months ahead of schedule. Sincerely, Team Rise

Hey Rise fans! Please have a read of our latest updates for what we've been working on over the past few days. Five main points that we would like to cover today include our global marketing efforts, YouTube videos, our animation explainer videos, Chainlink developments and our Governance platform. ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ Marketing We are trialling a few Crypto agencies with a view to work longer term with whoever produces the best results. Crynet.io are hard at work currently marketing. We are monitoring closely their efforts. ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ YouTube Crypto Wendy released her YouTube video this week. If you've not seen it yet then please have a look. Liking the video, commenting and sharing can greatly help the project. Thank you. https://twitter.com/CryptoWendyO/status/1366968324291260417?s=19 https://youtube.com/watch?v=RTfrWFtychQ&feature=share We have another YouTube video being released this weekend from a popular YouTuber from India so keep your eyes open for that. ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ Animated Videos We are putting the finishing touches on our animated explainer videos and hope to have them released in the next few days. ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ Chainlink Hopefully you all saw the news about our new developer Dele joining the team. Dele will lead the charge on our Chainlink integrations. Price Oracles, Verifiable Random Functions (VRF) and other Chainlink functions will take Rise Protocol to the next level and opens the door for so many other cool things too. ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ Governance Our governance platform launches this weekend, 3 months ahead of schedule. The link to a new telegram group will be shared. You need to be holding at least 300 Rise tokens to gain access to the group which will be automatically verified when joining through the collab.land bot. You will need to link your wallet to the bot. More instructions will follow on this. If you've not tested the new governance platform yet, please head to the following link and give it a try. https://riseprotocol.io/governance ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ Who is looking forward to our 5th positive rebase in a row today? Let's try and beat our previous best of 7 in a row!

Hi all We've been working with Crypto Wendy recently to help spread the word on Rise Protocol. Please give her tweet and YouTube video some love. Please like, comment, subscribe and share. Wendy has 84k followers on Twitter and 28k subscribers on YouTube. https://twitter.com/CryptoWendyO/status/1366968324291260417?s=19 https://youtube.com/watch?v=RTfrWFtychQ&feature=share Thank you