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UkraineDAO Investigation: White-Washing Crypto in Ukrainian Blood
How a Russian backed Crypto-Anarchist cartel masquerading as a charity tricked donors and framed the Ukrainian Government for a PR stunt .

It started with a fundraising party by Russian opposition and punk rock group pussy riot marketing the sale of a Ukrainian flag.

People sharing, dancing and singing, 7 Million raised in the biggest NFT sale ever .

What could possibly go wrong ?

This article promises to give you a comprehensive picture of what exactly the Ukraine-Dao is and who is behind it and why , what it isn’t and what was the Agenda . Because it will become evidently clear there was and still is one.

SO, What is the “Ukraine-Dao”:

Here is what they say on their own website ukrainedao.love

“Est. 21 Feb 2022, Ukraine DAO is an online collective that harnesses the power of Web3 tech and community to defend Ukraine against the russian invasion.”

Notice a few things, but first what on god’s green earth is an “online collective” and How does “harnessing the Web3 tech to defend Ukraine” exactly work. More Importantly what it didn’t say, No mention of Charity or even the word fund raising.

But that was not always the case, it only came to be in such manner after the fundraising was completed, watch this statement from Ukraine-Dao and Vitalik

https://twitter.com/vitalikbuterin/status/1497632851445043200

DAO Claims it was never a charity and was never meant to be a charity
In essence it became retroactively something that was never advertised when the initial fund raising happened
who is behind the DAO, who will help “harnessing the Web3 tech to defend Ukraine”

Vitalik Butirn

Vitalik is a Russian Canadian national, the founder of Ethereum. Since Satochi Nakamoto is Unknown, Vitalik is considered the Crypto figure of authority.

Reputation

Although popular amoung a group that resembels a cult of NFT and CryptoCurrencies when it comes to the real world it is no good, and to western instututions and banks its HORRIBLE .

It was hypothesized that ETH was built with Russian government in mind (the whole platform) later in 2017 that hypothesis was confirmed when Mr Vitalik started a joint venture with the Russian Government directly and with VEB bank ( coined FSB bank for its close ties to FSB)

I asked a simple question to someone who would know “Can you have a joint venture with a state affiliated Russian bank that would later be used in a sanctions evasion scheme for Venezuelan oil called PETRO after meeting Vladimir Putin ? ”

they answered “Any thing bigger than an ice cream stand will require you to get vetted, proportionally to the size and sensitivity of the venture”I replied with “What does vetting mean in Russian FSB language ? “

The answer was implied with its not simply knowing your background its more active than that and its also proportional with the seize and sensitivity of the venture”

Vitalik also after meeting Vladimir Putin, created ‘Ethereum Russia’ state owned bank VEB, He attended a signing ceremony with its head Sergei Gorkov ,VEB is intertwined with Russian intelligence. And the Russian prime minister is, by law, the chairman of its supervisory board.

Vitalik is smart enough to know that if there is someone that would adopt Etherum it would be Russia since the US and EU already have stable, trusted and highly regulated massive financial system. while no one wants russia’s rubel.

It is also worth mentioning Vitalik Buterin stated he donated to Ukraine via Tornado cash for Anonymity yet he stated this fact to global news agencies which negates the argument in his case at least it was a clear bid to try to legitimize a use case for crypto mixers.

The WEB3 and ETH Network that was developed is Extremely complex . Reasons are marketed to be some unattainable fantasies while in reality 95% of the time the only use for such complexity is an endless amount of scams, laundering, tax and sanction evasion schemes.Vitalik knows it

that . And hence Vitalik embargoes on a PR philanthropy campaign to try to fix this reputation problem for him and for Ethereum Part of that effort is the Ukraine-DAO

The PleasrDAO
here is how they describe them selfs on twitter PleasrDAO
“PleasrDAO”
a cartel of $PEEPS who aim to plz. @ownthedoge”
How did they start ? It was buying Edward Snowden Pentagon Papers NFT for 5.5 million dollars according to decrypt

Edward Snowden who is currently in Russia and allegedly cooperated with the Russians regarding his activities.businessinsider.com/ex-spies-say-s… .

The “collective” use certain terminology as part of it s brand, for example the CEO is called “pleaser in chief” the token they have is called $peeps and so forth.

The company that invested in them is A16z Crypto’s investment also made a similar investment in “Friends with Benefits” DAO .

Leonid Radvinsky
Owner of Only fans, most Successful entrepreneur in the Adult entertainment industry in history. Ukrainian for a father from Odessa who practiced the same trade he passed on to his son in Odessa in the 90s taking advantage of Ukrainian women upon the post soviet

Union economic crisis along with (His father) showing pro Putin sentiment like “Oct 27, 2017

1:52PM ET

I told all of you Do not bet against Putin Oil is going up” investing.com/members/Savely…

Reputation

Publicly almost None, meaning neither good or bad since publicly he does not exist due to a reputation of suing and censoring any negative media written about him.

In reality reputation is -100% , a few examples would be bribing Meta Officials to label instagram female models as terrorists in an effort of increasing traffic to only fans (Notice he plays the long game and a great chess player, it also worked)

How about selling fake passwords for pedophiles since he noticed a high unmet demand. Young Leonid would sell the passwords marketed as pedophiles secret websites and also celebrity leak porn. forbes.com/history-of-onl…

Of coarse the passwords he sold are fake but the money he took was not, and no pedophile will go report a scam of not getting proper pedophile material.

Along with a long list of models walking up to disappearing account balances on only fans and thousands of strike down requests submitted to google when they do complain so that he hides those complains.

forensicnews.net/onlyfans-faces…

Generally not really a nice guy who is big on philanthropy if Leonid pays a dollar its for a good reason for Leonid .
His reputation needed a lot of work hence donating a few million to Ukraine-Dao through only fans would be a smart idea. But forget about the PR campaign, Leonid

have more than one billion dollars in frozen fiat currency (billion with a b)vice.com/onlyfans-suspi…
Banks hate him since charge backs with porn industry is so common along with other accusations regarding only fans that I will not mention here.

He in turn hates banks back and it on a multipronged plan to undermine the whole banking system by increasing crypto adoption and backing Etheruem.

One aspect of this plan for his empire from banks regulation and any regulation is his investment on Elixir.

lr.com/post/leo-radvi…

An open source coding language that he also hopes can one day make him independent of tech giants. Who knows his plan might even involve developing his own internet or a dark web alternative that would allow him to make, sell, market and profit from any content he wants.

Ukraine-Dao helps him in his goals on many fronts and that’s why out of hundreds of Charities this non-charity of questionable characters was his favorite.

Dr bitcion (Mark Alexander Hopkin)

justice.gov/doctor-bitcoin…

There are experts in every industry. When it comes to block chain money laundry Dr bitcoin (yes he have a PhD in bitcoin) is arguably the best mind in the world.

Although he did a really good job in his money laundry Scheme involving a Nigerian scam

(not using the word allegedly since he is currently in prison after being convicted in that crime).Now why is Dr Bitcoin one of the founders of the Ukraine-Dao as a leading money expert in money laundry? I will leave that to your imagination.

Free Ross Dao
Most of the above founders are connected already on many levels but it is safe to say FreeRoss is the parent of the Ukraine-Dao.

Ross Albright is currently serving 2 life sentences for many activities around his Website silk road the dark web website that changed the way drug trafficking is done.

Other than drug trafficking Ross Paid for a an assassin to kill someone and asked for footage to confirm the murder (luckily the murder didn’t happen although he thought it did)

For this resume Ross is the champion of all the groups above. After all they are involved in one business or the other that is either illegal or highly scrutinized by banks.

And in all cases hate the establishment although if the argument of good uses for block chain is to be made it wouldn’t make sense to make the above party the champions of such idea since they have proven otherwise.

Ray Pax Youssef
Cofounder of Paxeful and free ross DAO (and by proxy Ukraine-Dao)

It is no secret what Ray Youssef business model at Paxful is .

Paxful (a crypto exchange) Maine revenue stream was selling bitcoin vouchers and coupons to Adult performers at Backpage.com after it (again) got kicked out of visa and master card and switched to crypto only and pax filled that void.

Ray was arrested with his cofounders for pointing an Ar15 at his neighbors in Florida, when law enforcement arrived they confiscated 500 rounds of Ammunition and a box of hashish and a box of cocaine .

wsvn.com/news/local/pol…

Allegedly Ray Pays any entity in order to take any article about this article down and he personally blocked me after I did so before (no he didn’t pay me) .

No after listing the Founders above, I would love to input some of my own experience.

I witnessed the beginning of a cult-like organization that rose out of the Ukraine cyber war scene

It is led by Alona shevchenko a Ukrainian Russian speaker who later adopted a brand of far right extremism and went on to siphon donations away from multiple Ukraine aid charities and a crusade to discredit all Ukraine supporters , dox fighters, send death threats,

operate an espionage operation to monitor any one who discredit her, all of this place a lot of question marks about her true intentions with . Back to Ray paxful Out of all the parties he is the most anti establishment ,

the one with closest ties to Russian entities with Favorite books , “secrets of the federal reserve” and “ THE CROWD A Study of the Popular Mind Gustave Le Bon” operate a branch of paxful in russia as well.

https://twitter.com/PrinceySOV/status/1622346031307390978

https://twitter.com/raypaxful/status/1015668014769954816

Interestingly, Ray from Paxful traveled to meet Alona from NYC to london the meeting happened on 20th feb 2022. Ray from paxful represented FreeRossDAO

Hours later after meeting him ALona Shevchenko published an open letter on FreeRossDAO Feb 21 2022,calling the group for action, the letter was Russian friendly and calling for peace in general with a moderate tone.

48 hours pre invasion and Alona Shevchenko's letter, actors came together fast. Since no one knew Alona Shevchenko, pussy riot was key to help her, pussy riot, did the marketing and the Ukrainian flag NFT sold for almost 7 million dollars .

But the bulk came not from general public but mainly from Leonid Radvinsky and Vitalik Buterin and for a reason.Leonid and Vitalik Buterin also took the opportunity for white washing.

More background on ALona Shevchenko:

Alona Victorovna Shevchenko , born in 1993 in a small village in eastern Ukraine . Grew Up with Russian as her native language to a family owned trucking business .

According to Alona at around 2020 she suddenly quit her job due to them labeling her “anti establishment” and a poor performer . Shortly after leaving her job she gets into the pussy riots circle with Nadia which was not surprising given that Alona lived in Brighton and spoke

Russian . Soon pussy riots introduced her to free ross dao , where she became a spokesperson , she then moved to a very expensive flat in central london although she claimed her salary was 1300$ per month according to one block chain transaction that was later recorded .

No one knows how she exactly made a living for those two years but what is publicly available is her involvement with a crypto org called GRO protocol dao. It was a startup that raised 7 million dollars in venture capital .

The idea was to leverage stable coin through some sort of fractional banking . The GRO protocol issued a crypto currency called $GRO , it spiked at more that 100 million $ before crashing by 99.9% , allegations of pump and dump are abound although that is not uncommon in crypto.

In 2022 feb she claims to have been informed by intelligence services that Ukraine will be invaded . On the fifteenth she creates a new wallet that will later be her official wallet and received 1325 from free ross dao , the transaction was sent by an affiliate of the pleasr dao

, another dao that came into fame when they acquired edward snowden art work (currently in russia) they also have common members with free ross dao and common investments .

On the twentieth of feb Alona met Mohamed Azab youseff , the founder of paxful the crypto exchange peer to peer marketplace along with being the key figure in free ross dao.

Youssef is a very interesting character , having voiced support for russia , refused to pull out from russian market and hold a very large footprint on the russian crypto scene , on feb 12th he tweeted a tweet suggesting that if russia was cut from swift ,

bitcoin adoption will increase, he also tweeted that russia posed no threat to Ukraine, on his timeline he has pictures in russia with a russian flag around his neck in russia’s world cup.

https://twitter.com/raypaxful/status/1492627602170908673?s=20

https://twitter.com/raypaxful/status/1608006283441115136?s=20

On feb 20 he flies from NYC where he leaves to UK , he meets Alona , it remains an open question what the meeting was about but 24 hours later Alona publishes an open letter on free ross blog saying she loves russian literature and her problem is with putin not russians ,

24 hours later (48 hours before war even started) Alona puts out a call for a dao for charity , she contacts her friends at pussy riots , pleaser doa and free ross and they start a team effort to create the first Ukrainian decentralized autonomous organization .

Alona was relatively unknown at that time but her connections to nadia from pussy riot gave legitimacy to the initiative . Pussy riot lead an effort to raise funds using an NFT they created of a ukrainian flag that sold for a whopping 7 million dollars ,

the main donors were leonid radvinsky the owner of only fans and vitalik buterin It is unknown how alona was connected to vitalik but they seem to have had a connection even before 2022 , in fact the first tweet from alona's account ever was about the Ethereum fork ,

her account name itself is called Cryptodrftng in anticipation for the yet to happen (at that time) Ethereum split .

https://twitter.com/cryptodrftng/status/1417530984828964870

During the party bid fundraiser for the NFT auction a bid for 5 million dollars worth of eth was placed by Leonid Radvinsky himself , his bid is recorded on the block chain but did not go through , he canceled the bid and then sent 4 million$ to an unknown address .

Shortly after onlyfans sent 500 ETH and Leonid personally sent another small amount using another wallet connected to him. It's worth noting Leonid, a Ukrainian from Odessa who has a very strong relationship with pussy riot , Nadia herself is on his platform and they market only

coindesk.com/onlyfans-donat…

After the successful fundraiser , the NFT became the most valuable to be ever sold and made headlines everywhere largely due to pussy riot involvement .

3.5 million dollars were sent from Ukraine dao to “come back alive” a reputable org , 1 million to the Ukrainian army and another sum to an lgbtq org in Ukraine , about 700000$ remained.

Here is where severe issues start to arise , Alona accused pussyriots of trying to steal her achievement because she is Ukrainian and kicked them out of the dao.

Pussy Riot wanted to make sure the money was disbursed before they leave but Alona told them they need to leave because they are russian. Pussy riot went public and said we didn't have a prior agreement that the money remaining in the dao wallet will be given to Alona.

For some reason pussy riot withdrew and deleted their tweets. Soon after, a vote was held to issue Alona 5000$ per month salary, although the dao is supposed to require 3 votes to pass a motion , “Crypto steve” gave the permission somehow and so far Alona got paid 55000 from dao

Alona developed a brand , the brand was extreme nationalism , this was not the case before the war since most of her friends were Russian and she stated 2 days before the war she loved Russian culture and has no problem with russians.

Alona realized an extremest approach will do good financially , she started to form close relationships will a nazi far right fringe in Ukraine , and unlike her letter 2 days before war she suddenly realized she hates all russians and have always done so .

She changed the mission of the dao from fundraising to a tool to counter misinformation in a bid to justify her salary and develop a brand .She operated a group of close followers who would look into all twitter accounts of western supporters to Ukraine ,

she would then attack them if she finds a mildly controversial tweet, for example if someone is advocating to allow Russians to escape mobilization Alona would label that as an offense saying “Russians should not pollute other countries”.

She would then add that account into a list and call it russian foreign asset lists , these lists included the red cross, belling cat , the telegraph and another 160 mostly pro ukraine twitter accounts or just random institutions.

With time her actions started to resemble that of a cult so I started to tweet about what I see and that this is cultish behavior. Alona doubled down , she changed her twitter category to “Spiritual leader” and changed her profile to “the Cult of the Ukrainian armed forces' ' .

With time she and her group’s extremism grew , she started recording spaces , monitoring who liked which tweet and organizing all of that in files , out of the 15 most famous space hosts for supporting Ukraine she attacked 15 of them .

She would ask to speak and talk for 30 minutes and if she was interrupted she would ask her followers to black list an individual and start a relentless campaign against them . Throughout the months Alona cashed in on every disaster , war and revolution. From the iran to turkey

dao although she did not mention the earthquake victims for 5 days.Alona had an initiative called Ukraine doa trucks where she said she will raise money to transport aid between Poland and Ukraine , she raised 32,000$ on the block chain alone she later refused to provide receipts

Alona would create disagreements using her team and then when engagement gets high she would insert a link to her “buy me a coffee" link so that she solicits donations using the traffic.

supporters got tired of infighting and hundreds of them left twitter entirely , most spaces either disappeared or cut down.
Alona and her team tried to dox at least one foreign legion fighter and one territorial defense fighter due to a vendetta about one of her relationships.

One of her cult followers would call employers of her enemies and report that they are harassing a ukrainian woman , he operated 36 accounts and was recording up to 5 spaces simultaneously using 5 devices , he later threatened physical violence to a few ukraine supporters.

The cult extremism started to change from a half joke to a full-on cult. Alona organized a session to pray in her name that is still available on twitter .Rumors about a pledge of allegiance to her circulate and according to former cult members do exist.

Those who leave the cult are excommunicated and blocked by all other members no matter if they are friends or not .
What is well known and proven is that Alona made close to 100,000$ out of donations publicly while championing a far right extremist cult .a lot of questions remain

Conclusion
What do all the actors have in common ?

Is it clear what the goals of this group is now and it has all to do with Crypto adoption, white washing a questionable reputation (being generous) and

dark illegal activities focusing mostly on payment processing and very little to do with having a positive impact on Ukraine.

In essense Alona Shevchenko disinformation campain againt hundreds of Ukrainian supporters led to the creation of Hundreds of enemies that in turn started to investigate her behavior and uncovered all this Scheme

If it wasn’t for the damage caused to Ukraine reputation by her campaign her choice and Ukraine-DAO creation would have been a net positive since s her attacks and enemy creation brought enough attention to all the criminal activity above.

Like Putin war of aggression that back fired in every way the Campaign launched by those crypto anarchists syndicate to clean up their reputation ended up hurting their reputation 10 fold

Request to Authorities
I hereby request the Ukrainian government and a the ministry of digital transformation to cut all ties to this suspicious entity trying to wash its dirty reputation with the blood of Ukrainian all the while doing more harm in the information space .

A cartel of dark web crypto anarchists involved in the whole spectrum of criminality is only doing to tarnish the reputation of Ukraine to in their effort to clean theirs and I am confident in the Ukrainian government that will make this attempt unsuccessful .

Ukraine with its heroes and great people deserves better than this, such is our faith and love for you and your people.

I also call on open investigation of Leonid Radvistky activities listed above.

The investigation of ray pax for defrauding costumers and his role aiding back page and other illegal activities.

The investigation of Vitalik Butrin for his role in breaking previous sanctions and ties to the fsb

Alona Shevchenko for her ties to all the previous parties, and Vitalik Buterin, financial misconduct and misinformation spreading along with and her associates notably Walter Lekh Junior from Leviv for his role embezzling money from a Ukrainian Charity and aiding Alona

NOTE FROM AUTHOR

This Investigation lasted for 6 months, I had hundreds of other Ukraine supporters help through sharing there findings and experience.

None of Us worked or works for a professional investigation organization and all the Information above is already public but this Investigation ties all the pieces together.

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