TREE NEWS update: Ondo founder and CEO Nathan Allman died unexpectedly in May at age 32, and a dispute over his estate has grown into a fight for control of the asset-tokenization firm. Hawaii courts named his mother Kathleen Allman as personal representative of the estate; she then moved to replace CEO Ian De Bode, who denies wrongdoing. De Bode’s pay package included $900,000 in salary and bonus, a $1 million signing bonus and 26 million restricted ONDO tokens.
Ondo Founder’s Death Sparks Estate Fight Over Control of Tokenization Firm
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Governance risk is the real story here, not the estate itself. A founder's sudden death handing effective control to an estate representative, and a push to replace a sitting CEO who disputes it, puts a tokenization firm's leadership in probate court — a structure crypto governance was meant to avoid. The open question is whether this stays a legal matter or spills into tokenholder and partner confidence.
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