According to PANews, Azuki founder Zagabond recently revealed on the X platform that he is Chinese, born in Harbin. He stated that this is his first time returning to his homeland in over five years (since before the COVID-19 pandemic), and his personal life goal is to better connect the East and West. Previously, Azuki had raised 20,000 ETH, but due to the unclear use of funds, Zagabond faced community scrutiny.
In response to the concerns, Azuki DAO hired lawyers to recover the 20,000 ETH from founder Zagabond and initiated a lawsuit against him, but later withdrew the lawsuit. In May 2022, ZAGABOND.ETH admitted in an article on Mirror that the Azuki team had operated three projects, CryptoPhunks, Tendies, and CryptoZunks, in the past year.