Marc Overmars has immediately resigned from his activities as an advisor to the controversial crypto company Xpose Protocol, a spokesperson for the club has informed. The Parool. The reason given by the director of Ajax is that he ‘did not sufficiently delve into the matter beforehand’. Earlier there was talk of a ‘private matter’, but the club is now coming back to that.
In May of this year, BNR already with several crypto-currency experts, emphatically warning about the above company. “Normally you can pay for things with such a cryptocurrency or use it for other purposes, but there is no purpose behind this,” he said. BNReditor Aaron Loupatty on the token that Xpose Protocol offers. “It’s no use, according to experts I spoke to. Also on the website it says that they only want to create value by organizing large marketing events.”
Also Crypto researcher Alex de Vries van Digiconomist raised his doubts with the company. “There is no white paper“, according to De Vries. “We also do not see who is responsible, because the developers want to remain anonymous, which is striking. They also don’t seem to be registered as a company. What they mainly do is focus on marketing, but that is not a real product.” It is suspected that there is a ‘pyramid-like set-up’, in which people are encouraged to recruit more people. Also the change of course, which increased quickly and quickly fell was remarkable.
Ajax previously reported that Overmars’ advisorship within the company was on the back burner because of a ‘private matter’. Overmars was presented this spring as an advisor to the company. The club’s Supervisory Board does not wish to respond to questions from The Parool. Crypto companies are known for operating in a legal no man’s land more often. The Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) says it has no legal basis for taking action against such practices.