Odaily Planet Daily News According to Arthur Cheong, founder and CEO of DeFiance Capital, he wrote an article on X platform reviewing the development history of the fund.
Initially, Arthur personally invested less than $100,000 in cryptocurrency. In January 2020, Arthur decided to create DeFiance, a fund dedicated to DeFi. Initially, the fund's startup capital and committed capital were less than $2 million, but in March 2020, due to market changes, the plan was temporarily suspended. With the arrival of DeFi Summer, DeFiance's vision was validated, and the plan to establish the fund was continued, ultimately resulting in DeFiance being established with a size of less than $20 million.
Arthur added that at the peak of DeFiance, its AUM exceeded $500 million, but was later impacted by the 3AC bankruptcy incident. When DeFiance launched its second fund, it encountered the FTX collapse. Until now, DeFiance is still resolving legal disputes with FTX regarding the first fund. The scale of the second fund at launch was lower than the first, and the market environment was more intense, but the AUM of the fund still rose eight times within a year.