From $60M failure to crypto scam cop: The reinvention of 0xSisyphus
In any other industry, the leader of a $60 million fraud would likely not be given a platform from which to lecture the public on dishonesty. In crypto, however, that type of experience commonly qualifies candidates for jobs as scam cops. Pseudonymous trader 0xSisyphus, whose AnubisDAO ended in catastrophic failure, losing roughly 13,556 ETH, then worth about $60 million, has rebuilt a 153,000-follower platform on X as a blockchain cop. Fortunately — for 0xSisyphus, at least — younger members of Crypto Twitter (CT) have never heard about Anubis. In October 2023, anonymous investigator NFT Ethics claimed that OpenSeas ex-Head of Ventures, Kevin Pawlak, was behind the account. In a thread on X, NFT Ethics alleged that Pawlak ran “various very dubious business dealings” including “pump & dump schemes” through that pseudonym, including trying to unload a stake in his failing AnubisDAO onto Sam Bankman-Frieds Alameda Research. At the time, the immensely popular NFT marketplace OpenSea said it was unaware of any such activities involving Pawlak and, anyway, described his role as non-managerial. Maybe not theft, but negligence and lying ZachXBT, the most prominent on-chain investigator in crypto, disagreed with parts of the NFT Ethics thread. Although he blamed 0xSisyphus for “gross negligence” and “lying,” he stopped short of








