The United States Attorney’s Office said on Oct

31 that Elmaani — also known by the alias “Bruno Block” — was sentenced to prison following his April 6 guilty plea where he admitted to secretly minting and selling Pearl tokens while not paying income tax on a swathe of profits from the project.

Amir Elmaani, the 31-year-old founder of the now-defunct cryptocurrency scheme Oyster Protocol, has been handed the maximum sentence of four years in prison for tax evasion.