PANews reported on June 27 that according to the official blog, the Fantom Foundation disclosed that the Seoul High Court of South Korea ruled in favor of the defendant Fantom Foundation and determined that Andre Cronje led the development of Fantom. The case stems from the allegations of the Korean food technology startup SikSin and its CEO Byung-Ik Ahn against the Fantom Foundation, claiming that they provided technical implementation services to Fantom, but Fantom failed to fulfill the service agreement and demanded payment of more than 198 million FTM. After the High Court trial, the court found that SikSin and Ahn failed to design a viable "Lachesis Protocol" according to the agreement and were suspected of plagiarizing other technical papers. The court also pointed out that the application that the plaintiff tried to develop was contrary to the direction of the Fantom project. The court confirmed that Fantom's success was attributed to the internal development team led by Andre Cronje and Quan Nguyen, and ruled that the plaintiff should bear all litigation costs.
