Five bitcoins seeking a job match? "Zeus Capital" private KOL attempts to spread a bearish report.

The decentralized oracle project Chainlink is undoubtedly one of the most successful projects in recent years. Not only has its token price made significant progress, but news of strategic partnerships with various projects has also been released continuously. As a veteran project from 2017, it has a strong crypto community supporting it up to this year. However, being in the spotlight may attract unwanted attention. Recently, an unknown institution called Zeus Capital has been trying to spread its bearish views through crypto Twitter.

Rumor of Short Report Comes from Partner Nexo

After the rumor of a short report spread, Twitter user ChainLinkGod discovered that the invalid external links in the report revealed a name: Simeon. The code on Zeus Capital's website also showed a "TypeForm" string identical to Nexo's form system.

ChainLinkGod pointed out that, more coincidentally, once the issue was exposed, the Twitter and LinkedIn accounts of Simeon Rusanov, the Digital Assets Research Director at Nexo, were deleted at the same time as the short report. Currently, Simeon Rusanov's Twitter and LinkedIn accounts appear normal, but the report has been taken down, and there has been no further response from Simeon Rusanov or Nexo.

Zeus Capital Seeks Crypto Influencers for Collaboration

Reports indicated that the institutional Twitter account @ZeusCapitalLLP had been suspended, but it recently returned. Furthermore, at a price as high as five bitcoins, it reached out to several influential individuals in the crypto Twitter community in an attempt to spread bearish sentiment about Chainlink.

Blockchain developer @icebergy_ shared messages from Zeus on Twitter, where Zeus repeatedly asked if they could assist in analyzing and posting price fluctuation charts for Chainlink at the cost of five bitcoins.

Note: Recently, LINK dropped from $8.72 on July 15th to $6.71 on the 27th.

Crypto analyst Josh Rager, who has 70,000 followers, also received messages but stated that he would ignore them.

Despite rejections from the crypto community, Zeus, with its restored Twitter account, continued to retweet criticisms of Chainlink from various influential figures, including a tweet from Blockstream CEO Samson Mow who stated in 2019:

Chainlink is an outright scam. When I said LINK is a useless token, a bunch of fan accounts popped up under the tweet, just like the awful Ripple (XRP) community.