According to the Multichain team’s testimony, the first wave of shock for the Multichain community came on May 21, 2023, when CEO Zhaojun was apprehended by Chinese police. This news left the global team in disarray as they discovered their operational access keys to the Multichain Processing Component (MPC) node servers had been revoked. Complicating matters further was the realization that these servers were managed under Zhaojun’s personal cloud server account, to which no one else had access.