Public Warning by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority that Hyperrr.com GmbH is "suspected of conducting unauthorised activities in the financial market".
Class Action Complaint in Aaron Murphy v. Argo Blockchain Plc, of England, which "purports to engage in the cryptocurrency mining business worldwide"; Peter Wall, Alex Appleton, Matthew Shaw, Sarah Gow, Colleen Sullivan, and Maria Perrella at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Complaint "for conversion, fraudulent misrepresentation, unjust enrichment, and a declaratory judgment to recover from harm caused by Defendant's brazen attack on Mango Markets" in Mango Labs LLC v. Avraham Eisenberg at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Well-known crypto investor Roger Ver, who renounced his U.S. citizenship in 2014 and became a citizen of Saints Kitts and Nevis, is being sued for $20 million by a British Virgin Islands-domiciled affiliate of insolvent crypto lender Genesis for "failure to settle cryptocurrency options transactions".
Class Action Complaint in William McGreevy, Ashwin Gowda, Translunar Crypto LP, Christopher Buttenham, and Alex Sopinka v. Digital Currency Group Inc. and Barry Silbert at the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut.
Summons with Notice in GGC International Limited, of the British Virgin Islands v. Roger Ver, of Saints Kitts and Nevis, at the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York.
Complaint alleging the defendant "is a central part of a business venture designed to explicitly mislead consumers into thinking that his and his accomplices' knockoff non-fungible tokens are affiliated, sponsored, or associated with Yuga Labs" in Yuga Labs Inc. v. Thomas Lehman at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York.
Complaint alleging the defendant "drained approximately $116 million from a crypto asset trading platform known as Mango Markets after manipulating the trading price and volume of the “MNGO token,” a so-called “governance token” of Mango Markets that was purchased and sold as a crypto asset security" in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Avraham Eisenberg at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Director Details for Coincident Capital International Ltd. Ltd. (which has an unsecured claim of $112 million in the bankruptcy of crypto lender Genesis), obtained from the Cayman Islands General Registry on January 20th, 2023.
Chapter 11 Petition by Genesis Global Holdco LLC, of New York; Genesis Global Capital, LLC, of New York, and Genesis Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd., of Singapore, which collectively "provide lending and borrowing, spot trading, derivatives and custody services for digital assets and fiat currency", at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.
Press Release by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announcing that Nexo Capital Inc., of the Cayman Islands, has agreed to pay $45 million in penalties for conducting an "unregistered offering of crypto asset lending product".
Administrative Order by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission imposing a civil money penalty of $22.5 million on Nexo Capital Inc., described as a Cayman Islands-domiciled provider of "crypto asset-related financial products and services", for an unregistered securities offering.
Class Action Complaint alleging securities fraud in International Union of Operating Engineers, Local No. 793, Members Pension Benefit Trust of Ontario, of Canada v. Silvergate Capital Corporation, Alan J. Lane, Antonio Martino, Kathleen M. Fraher, Benjamin C. Reynolds, Dennis S. Frank, Michael Lempres, Karen F. Brassfield, Robert C. Campbell, Paul D. Colucci, Thomas C. Dircks, Scott Reed, Colleen Sullivan, Aanchal Gupta, Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Keefe Bruyette & Woods Inc., Canaccord Genuity LLC, Compass Point Research & Trading LLC, Craig-Hallum Capital Group LLC, JPMorgan Securities LLC, and Wedbush Securities LLC at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California.
Complaint alleging breach of contract in Celsius Network Limited, of England, described as "a crypto-based financial platform" v. Fabric Ventures Group Sàrl, of Luxembourg, described as "a venture-capital firm that contractually committed to purchase Series B preferred shares of CNL", at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.
Amended Class Action Complaint in Joshua Berdugo v. Gemini Trust Company LLC, Tyler Winklevoss, and Cameron Winklevoss at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
On the day its offices were raided in Bulgaria last week, and four of its employees criminally charged with money laundering and fraud, the Nexo crypto lending group sued the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority for rejecting its licensing application and is seeking a court declaration that it is "suitable to be registered".
Amended Criminal Complaint alleging the operation of an unlicensed money transmitting business in the form of Bitzlato Limited, described as "a Hong Kong-registered cryptocurrency exchange", in USA v. USA v. Anatoly Legkodymov, described as a citizen of Russia residing in Shenzhen, China, at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Class Action Complaint in Dallas Woody v. Coinbase Global Inc., Coinbase Inc., and Brian Armstrong at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
Defendant Stephen Braverman's Motion to Dismiss in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Arbitrade Ltd., of Bermuda; Cryptobontix Inc., of Canada; Troy R.J. Hogg, of Canada; James L. Goldberg, Stephen L. Braverman, and Max W. Barber, as Defendants, and SION Trading FZE, of the United Arab Emirates, as Relief Defendant, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
Defendant James Goldberg's Motion to Dismiss in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Arbitrade Ltd., of Bermuda; Cryptobontix Inc., of Canada; Troy R.J. Hogg, of Canada; James L. Goldberg, Stephen L. Braverman, and Max W. Barber, as Defendants, and SION Trading FZE, of the United Arab Emirates, as Relief Defendant, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
Notice of Originating Motion to reverse a regulator's rejection of an application for "registration as a virtual asset service provider" in Nexo Capital Inc. v. Cayman Islands Monetary Authority at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.
Class Action Complaint in Joshua Berdugo v. Gemini Trust Company LLC, Tyler Winklevoss, and Cameron Winklevoss at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
Complaint alleging "an unregistered offer and sale of securities" in the form of crypto in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Genesis Global Capital LLC and Gemini Trust Company LLC at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Complaint in Karl Alexander Brummer v. Coinbase Inc. and American Bankers Insurance Company of Florida at the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota.
Complaint in Patrick Boismenu, described as a citizen of Canada residing in Egypt who is "an expert in cryptography and crypto currencies with decades of experience in these fields" v. Ironworks BVI Ltd., a.k.a. Ironworks Trading, d.b.a. Ferrum Network, described as a British Virgin Islands company that "advertises itself as a leader in blockchain interoperability", at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Class Action Complaint in Charles Freeman, Tigran Melkonyan, Ari Shofet, Shawn Mall, Benjamin Ferris, Bryan Chapman, Nandan Arora, Shafiq Rajani, Vijay Christopher, Marc Ashby, Vincent van Buskirk, Lawrence Manickam, and Edmundo Pena v. 3Commas Technologies OÜ, of Estonia, described as "a provider of automatic Crypto trading software", at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
Criminal Indictment alleging "a scheme to fraudulently obtain approximately $110 million worth of cryptocurrency from a cryptocurrency exchange called Mango Markets and its investors" in USA v. Avraham Eisenberg at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Class Action Complaint "for aiding and abetting a multibillion-dollar fraudulent scheme orchestrated by Sam Bankman-Fried through two of his entities, the cryptocurrency exchange FTX and the cryptocurrency hedge fund Alameda Research LLC" in Andrawes Husary, Francisco de Tomaso, described as a citizen and resident of Argentina; Soham Bhatia, and Michael Hawwa v. Silvergate Bank, Silvergate Capital Corporation, and Alan J. Lane at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California.
Complaint alleging "a manipulative and deceptive scheme to artificially inflate the price of swaps offered by Mango Markets, a decentralized digital asset exchange, culminating in the misappropriation of over $100 million from the platform" in Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Avraham Eisenberg at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Complaint regarding "fraud protection" for allegedly stolen Bitcoin in Matthew Allan v. Coinbase Inc. at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
Complaint for "an injunction in aid of arbitration requiring Centre to direct the segregation of the $6,000,000 USD supporting the peg for the 6,000,000 USDC and to block and freeze 6,000,000 permanently inaccessible USDC stable coins belonging to FXCH" in FXCH Ltd., described as "a member-based financial utility for Institutional Spot-FX Clearing with its principal place of business in Dublin, Ireland" v. Centre Consortium LLC, which "administers the network for a so-called 'stablecoin' that is pegged 1-to-1 (or 1:1) to the U.S. Dollar, called USD Coin and denominated as USDC", at the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
Superseding Indictment alleging fraud and money laundering regarding "a purported cryptocurrency mining and trading company that promised to earn its victim-investors profits in exchange for their purchase of cryptocurrency-related investment products" in USA v. Francisley da Silva, a citizen of Brazil; Juan Tacuri, Antonia Perez Hernandez, and Ramon Perez at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Complaint alleging "a scheme to defraud hundreds of thousands of investors, including more than 26,000 New Yorkers, by using false and misleading representations to induce them to deposit billions of dollars in digital assets with his cryptocurrency lending company Celsius Network LLC" in The People of the State of New York, by Letitia James, as the Attorney General of the State of New York v. Alex Mashinsky at the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York.
Criminal Complaint in USA v. Aurelien Michel, a citizen of France residing in the United Arab Emirates, at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Class Action Complaint in Julie Chon Papadakis v. Samuel Bankman-Fried, Caroline Ellison, Gary Wang, Nishad Singh, Armanino LLP, and Prager Metis CPAs LLC at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
Complaint (and Proposed Judgment) alleging the defendant "stole more than $5 million" from his employer, African Gold Acquisition Corp., and from investors in Strategic Metals Acquisition Corp. I and Strategic Metals Acquisition Corp. II, all of the Cayman Islands, in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Cooper J. Morgenthau at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Complaint for patent infringement in Veritaseum Capital LLC v. Circle Internet Financial Limited, of Ireland, and Cybavo Inc., of Taiwan, at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.
Media Release by the Securities Commission of the Bahamas, including copies of filings at Bahamas Supreme Court, regarding what information about the failed FTX crypto group can be legally shared with debtors in the United States.
Decision Notice by the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority that it has cancelled the fund registrations of VQR Multistrategy Fund LP and VQR Multistrategy Cayman Feeder Fund Ltd.
Complaint in Austin Onusz, Cedric Kees van Putten, Nicholas J. Marshall, and Hamad Dar v. West Realm Shires Inc., West Realm Shires Services Inc., FTX Trading Ltd., Alameda Research LLC, Sam Bankman-Fried, Gary Wang, Nishad Singh, and Caroline Ellison at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.
Complaint "to inspect the books and records of BlueFlame Diversified Digital Fund I, LP" in Ironmonger Global Ventures LLC v. BlueFlame Digital Capital Management LLC and BlueFlame Diversified Digital Fund I LP, formerly Stonegate Diversified Digital Asset Fund LP, at the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware.
Class Action Complaint in Brendan Picha and Max J. Hastings v. Gemini Trust Company LLC, described as "a New York-based crypto asset exchange and lending platform"; Tyler Winklevoss, and Cameron Winklevoss at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.