The author of the project writes in white paper that he was personally acquainted with Fred Ersham, Vitalik Buterin, Vlad Zamfir, Pereti Kasireddi, Hugh Karp. But, there is no information about whether this project was approved by Buterin.
Thanks for the comment! We have taken inspiration from the likes of Fred, Vitalik and others. This has been mentioned in
this blog post released on our Medium page. We encourage you to revisit our light-paper at
this link