Crypto market making firm Wintermute took aim on the NEAR Foundation and its subsidiary Aurora Labs for allegedly failing to honour a redemption deal worth $11 million.

In an X put up on Tuesday, Wintermute founder and CEO Evgeny Gaevoy announced that the firm was as soon as “no longer surely associates” with the 2 entities that did no longer develop correct on their commitment.

Sharing a background of the transaction in question, Gaevoy defined that Wintermute was as soon as working with the FTX economic waste estate to facilitate liquidations for creditor distributions. As portion of the deal, Wintermute was as soon as meant to facilitate a sale of $11.2 million USN – the NEAR-essentially based entirely algorithmic stablecoin that was as soon as shut down closing twelve months.

“While we acted on a proprietary foundation (no longer as agent), we indubitably entered into the transaction per the self perception that we would possibly perhaps moreover redeem USN to USDT on a 1-to-1 foundation,” said Gaevoy.

In October 2022, Unchained reported that the NEAR Foundation had web sigh online aside $40 million for a USN redemption program to enable users to redeem USN for USDT on a 1:1 foundation.

Gaevoy said that besides public statements from the NEAR Foundation, they had moreover presented Wintermute to Aurora and confirmed that the redemption would be facilitated in a pair of days.

“Alternatively, upon submitting our redemption, NF [NEAR Foundation] refused to honor their commitments. 2.5 months later, we haven’t bought any USDT for the USN despatched to them in August,” he said.

Gaevoy added that the closing supply Wintermute bought was as soon as 20% of the sum in question, and that Wintermute was as soon as “fully committed to switching into stout-time adversarial mode” if the Foundation continues to be unreasonable.