Trusted Smart Chain fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

I came across Trusted Smart Chain when an IN8 marketing video linked to in one of BehindMLM’s articles was flagged as deleted.

The video was uploaded by Travis Flaherty. To confirm I visited Flaherty’s YouTube channel and found the videos had been deleted.

IN8 started off as an NFT grift spinoff of iX Global, an unregistered investment scheme sued by the SEC and subject of two criminal investigations by Indian authorities.

Flaherty was a named defendant in the SEC’s $110 million iX Global fraud lawsuit;

Flaherty is an iX Global “Brand Ambassador” and, as such, has solicited investors to purchase DEBT Box crypto asset securities.

Flaherty is also the Registered Agent for Relief Defendant Flaherty Enterprises, LLC.

After IN8 collapsed a few months after launch, owner and wanted fugitive Joe Martinez rebooted it as a failed DAO project.

Getting back to Flaherty’s YouTube channel, after IN8 Flaherty uploaded marketing promo videos for Shoply and Nuway Healthcare.

Neither of those seem to have panned out, with Flaherty uploading videos on “TSC” from late 2024.

“TSC” stands for Trusted Smart Chain. In the video description of “TSC Overview 12-28”, uploaded on December 29th, 2024, Flaherty confirms he is a Trusted Smart Chain co-founder.

I am thrilled to officially announce my acceptance as Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Trusted Smart Chain (TSC).

The thumbnail of Flaherty’s video cites Billy Beach as Trusted Smart Chain’s other co-founder:

Billy Beach, aka Mark Williams Schuler, was also a named defendant in the SEC’s iX Global fraud lawsuit.

Schuler is an iX Global “Brand Ambassador” and, as such, has solicited investors to purchase DEBT Box crypto asset securities.

Along with Defendant Benjamin Daniels, Schuler is the co-founder and a member of Defendant Core 1 Crypto, an entity that partnered with DEBT Box to solicit DEBT Box investors.

In addition, along with Defendants Alton Parker and Benjamin Daniels, Schuler is a co-founder of the FAIR Project, and has solicited investors to purchase crypto assets offered by the FAIR Project.

Whether there are other Trusted Smart Chain co-founders is unclear. Given both Flaherty and Schuler were recently named defendants in a US regulatory fraud lawsuit, this non-disclosure is a significant red flag.

Trusted Smart Chain’s website domain (“trustedsmartchain.com”), was privately registered on October 2nd, 2024. Trusted Smart Chain’s website was put together in November 2024.

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MI Airobot fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

MI Airobot’s website domain (“miairobot.com”), was first registered in 2017. The private registration was last updated on January 7th, 2025.

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Earlier this week BehindMLM reported on Brian Shuster’s RICO fraud lawsuit, filed against Josh Denne, his company Blockchain Alliance and Jeremy Roma.

In the article we noted Denne had filed an earlier state-level Californian suit against Shuster. Unfortunately California does not provide public access to state-level court filings.

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Qatar VIP fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

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Windly Energy fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

Windly Energy’s website domain (“windly.energy”), was privately registered on April 3rd, 2023.

Over on Windly Energy’s official YouTube channel we find an actor with an African (Caribbean?) accent playing CEO “Jason Marmon”.

Marmon doesn’t exist outside of Windly Energy’s own marketing, making him a prime Boris CEO candidate. This is further supported by the actor referring to Windly Energy as “whine-dly” in its marketing videos.

It should be noted that while Windly Energy marketing began in October 2023, the Jason Marmon actor didn’t surface till November 2024.

On its website Windly Energy represents it is based out of California in the US. This is based on registration of the shell company Windly Energy LTD.

Windly Energy LTD was registered in California in April 2023 and lists Jason Marmon, through a Regus virtual office address, as its sole registered Agent.

Due to the ease with which scammers are able to incorporate shell companies with bogus details, for the purpose of MLM due-diligence shell company registration in any jurisdiction is meaningless.

Despite only existing since 2023 at the earliest, in its obligatory rented office marketing video Windly Energy falsely claims it was founded in 2015.

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