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Zhou: FirstBlood Operated as 'Project Tron' on The DAO Before Hack

Joe Zhou · 784: Crypto: How ICO Companies Turn Money Raised Into Cash-In-Bank To Fund Growth · Sep 16, 2017 · at 7:49

Joe Zhou, founder of decentralized esports platform FirstBlood, discusses how The DAO's smart contract exploit in 2016 derailed their original plan to receive DAO funding.

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“Before the name first slide really came into life, we were operating under the project Tron in the DAO community, and we were one of the Most popular projects that are being supported. We're thinking about launching it, but then the whole bug happened.”

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