Yeah, you're most likely right.  There's suddenly a new tech (DeFi) and all of the computer-literate hucksters, scammers, retards, and others come out of the woodwork in order to cash in on it without actually advancing the underlying technology if they even use it to begin with.  And yep, that's just what happened with the ICO craze, although DeFi seems like it might be useful to some folks whereas 99.9999% of ICO projects were obvious nonsense upon reading the first paragraph of the ANN thread.

I don't understand what Graphene or Phore are, but hopefully people can judge for themselves whether they want to get involved in it.  Theymos shouldn't be shouldering any responsibility for what Phore might do IMO.  He doesn't see it as an obvious scam, and he's just allowing them to purchase some advertising space on the forum.  Big effin' deal. 

We'll wait until there's a rock-solid scam accusation against them until we nail Theymos up on a telephone pole.  Sound good?