Is there a chance authorities could track down the scammers? I’m not familiar enough with this space to understand but I’ve seen that people making anonymous Bitcoin payments can be tracked down. What makes this different?
Unfortunately, $32M is probably not enough to warrant an investigation.
This kind of stuff is a shame, because there's a lot of ethical and innovative applications in DeFi, like Uniswap, Aave, Compound, and Yearn. There's also index tokens managed via the Set Protocol that have been running for years with no issues. BSC is a fork of Ethereum and the main appeal is lower transaction fees (at the cost of centralization). From my perspective, BSC tends to be forks of Ethereum based projects deployed by devs that have little idea how they work. I look at many projects on BSC as being little better than a casino game.
Heck, a nontrivial number of applications running on BSC are literally casino games. It's somewhat popular as a way of implementing (unregulated and probably illegal) online gaming.