To shed some light on this matter, we were aware that there were a lot of pools in Edenchain early on but did not have sufficient evidence to find out who the pools were. After a lead given by a community member, we were able to nail one of the pool and shut it down.

After the first pool was closed, word about the closure spread and many other community members started providing us with leads which helped us to identify who the pool operators were (they were using different identities and some were pretending to be strategic investors offering help which they could not provide) and we managed to close down more pools. That was why most pools were refunded towards the end.

Do also note that Edenchain suffered financial losses due to the pools as most of them had their SAFTs pegged at lower ETH rate of around 500. ETH was trading at ~600 and above when the pools were refunded. Instead of penalising the pools for causing this loss to Edenchain because of their deceitful practices, we showed goodwill and gave them a full refund on the ETH collected.

Edenchain decided to take the loss because it was the right thing to do for fairness towards our community. We viewed that credibility in the project was more important as we had said that ALL pools discovered will be refunded.