So if I'm understanding this correctly, it is normal and common for development teams in the crypto tech space to be completely anonymous to one another? Like you don't know each other's names or anything? Really?

Not really, most teams will at least know each others identities even if they’re not publicly doxxed 

Part of the problem here is that proxy was careful to never publicly tie his irl identity to his previous pseudonym, so even if the clanker team knew his real name they wouldn’t be able to put together the pieces 

But his old team knew his identity, so that’s why this whole thing unraveled when one of his old team members saw him in person and alerted the clanker team

building @emptyblock / prev director of research @coinmetrics