After ‘Stealing’ $16M, This Teen Hacker Seems Intent on Testing ‘Code Is Law’ in the Courts

After ‘Stealing’ M, This Teen Hacker Seems Intent on Testing ‘Code Is Law’ in the Courts
Some $16 million in cryptocurrency was pilfered in an exploit of a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol last week, and the victims believe they know exactly who did it.Despite threats from the team, however, the alleged attacker – a Canadian teenage graduate student – is refusing to return the funds, potentially setting the stage for a groundbreaking legal confrontation.On one side of the conflict is a child math prodigy and an outspoken champion of DeFi’s self-regulating “code is law” ethos. On the other, a pair of DeFi developers and their advisors who felt forced to make an unprecedented series of troubling…