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Canadian math prodigy allegedly stole $65M in crypto

Andean Medjedovic says he hopes his case will be dropped as American regulators have pulled back on cryptocurrency-related enforcement since U.S. President Donald Trump’s inauguration

In the fall of 2021, shortly after completing a master’s degree at the University of Waterloo, the math prodigy and cryptocurrency trader from Hamilton had conducted a complex series of transactions designed to exploit a vulnerability in the code of a decentralized finance platform. Indexed Finance’s leaders traced the attack back to Mr. Medjedovic, and made him an offer: Return 90 per cent of the funds, keep the rest as a so-called “bug bounty” – a reward for having identified an error in the code – and all would be forgiven. A slight kid with dirty blond hair, blue eyes and mischievously arched brows, Mr. Medjedovic grew up in Hamilton with his parents and his younger brother, Denean, and attended Westmount Secondary School, a highly-rated institution known for its unconventional self-directed approach to learning.

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