aelf open letter: Projects, DApps and activities that unilaterally declare investment in aelf are considered invalid and unverified

According to official news, aelf issued an open letter regarding the recent incident of "a certain block producer's activities causing community concern". The main contents are as follows: 1. aelf operates independently and any official relationships with external entities are recognized only when expressly stated by aelf. 2. Without official recognition from aelf, projects, DApps and activities claiming to invest in aelf (including but not limited to aelfUnion) are deemed invalid and unverified. aelf’s investment announcements in external entities are only released through official social media accounts, including Medium, X, Telegram and LinkedIn. 3. The responsibilities of aelf’s block production nodes (also known as block producers) include collecting, verifying and packaging transactions into blocks, disseminating these blocks to other nodes, and maintaining the stability of the aelf ecosystem. Any actions taken by block producers that are not related to aelf’s blockchain and are beyond the scope of the above, including activities carried out by aelfUnion, such as: staking pools, yield farming, incentive programs and crypto derivatives, etc., are not authorized by the aelf authorizes, supervises or controls. Unless explicitly stated by aelf, aelf neither endorses nor assumes responsibility for the actions, activities and statements made by block producers and external entities.