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Crimes Across America

The Fugitive Founder: Do Kwon and the $40 Billion Illusion

Crimes Across America

Nanny's House Ent.

True Crime

5.0585 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

In the world of cryptocurrency, few rises were as meteoric—and few downfalls as devastating—as that of Do Kwon. Once hailed as a visionary, he built an empire on TerraUSD and Luna, coins that promised stability but delivered ruin. When the system crumbled in 2022, more than $40 billion vanished, shattering lives and shaking global markets. What followed was a fugitive’s flight across borders, an international manhunt, and eventual capture. This is the true story of ambition, deception, and on...

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0:00.0

The story of Doquan begins not in the crowd of halls of Wall Street or Silicon Valley,

0:05.0

but in Seoul, South Korea, where a young, brilliant, and ambitious man began sketching out ideas

0:11.0

that he believed would change the world.

0:14.0

Born Kwan Dohyung in 1991, he was raised in a society that revered education, technology, and innovation.

0:21.5

From a young age, he was drawn to mathematics and computer science, excelling in ways that made

0:26.1

his parents and teachers believe he was destined for something far beyond the ordinary.

0:30.9

When he left South Korea to study computer science at Stanford University, the belief seemed justified.

0:36.8

As Stanford, Doquan thrived in an environment

0:38.9

filled with other ambitious minds. He absorbed not just technical knowledge, but also the spirit

0:44.7

of Silicon Valley, a place where startups rose and fell daily, where a billion-dollar companies

0:50.6

could be born from dorm room experiments. He admired the tech titans who built fortunes

0:56.4

from code and vision, and he believed he too was destined to leave his mark. After graduating in 2015,

1:03.8

he briefly worked at tech giants like Apple and Microsoft, but he felt stifle. The safe path of a steady

1:09.8

job did not appeal to him.

1:11.6

He wanted to create someone monumental,

1:13.6

something that would not just earn him wealth,

1:15.9

but also prove him as a visionary.

1:18.4

That ambition crystallized into entrepreneurship.

1:21.2

His first venture was a startup called UnaFi,

1:23.8

which aimed to build a decentralized mesh network using Wi-Fi.

1:28.0

It fizzled, but it gave him experience.

1:30.8

By 2018, cryptocurrency had already begun reshaping the global financial landscape.

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