April 16, 2024 A class action alleges Bitcoin Depot and Circle K Stores are well aware that older consumers are routinely targeted in financial scams involving the former’s cryptocurrency ATMs.
February 14, 2024 Coinbase info processor Jumio faces a lawsuit that alleges the company has violated Illinois law by collecting, storing and otherwise obtaining users’ facial scans.
November 29, 2023 A class action alleges soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo illegally engaged in the mass solicitation of unregistered securities on behalf of embattled crypto exchange Binance.
August 14, 2023 Coinbase faces a class action filed on behalf of European Union-based accountholders that claims the major cryptocurrency exchange platform failed to provide adequate security to prevent users’ accounts from being “hijacked” and drained by hackers.
June 23, 2023 Atomic Wallet faces a class action after more than $100 million in crypto was stolen from users in a massive hack around June 3, 2023.
June 9, 2023 A proposed class action alleges Binance has knowingly aided and abetted the theft and subsequent laundering of Bitcoin, Ether and other assets.
May 24, 2023 Shaquille O’Neal faces a proposed class action lawsuit over his connection to tokens and NFTs associated with The Astrals Project.
May 4, 2023 A class action claims Coinbase has wrongfully collected, stored, shared and profited from Illinois residents’ biometric data, including facial and fingerprint scans.
April 4, 2023 Binance, CEO Changpeng Zhao and several “influencers” face a class action lawsuit over their alleged role in the illegal sale of unregistered securities.
February 21, 2023 A victim of the 2022 Nomad Bridge hack has sued the bridge’s operator and the entities in possession of the cryptographic keys needed to access the highly valuable crypto asset-moving pathway.
February 6, 2023 A class action alleges YouTuber Logan Paul and others manipulated consumers into buying Zoo Tokens and NFTs for CryptoZoo, an online game that “did not work and never existed.”
January 17, 2023 A class action alleges Coinbase Global has refused to distribute blockchain company Flare Network’s FLR and Songbird digital currency units to XRP investors.
December 14, 2022 A class action alleges the NFTs sold on a platform operated by Nifty Gateway and The Gemini Trust Company are in fact unregistered securities under federal law.
December 8, 2022 A class action alleges VBit Technologies, Advanced Mining Group and several individuals engaged in a fraudulent Bitcoin mining scam that in reality functioned as “a massive Ponzi scheme."
December 7, 2022 A class action alleges embattled FTX founder and ex-CEO Sam Bankman-Fried deliberately caused “one of the most spectacular financial frauds since Bernie Madoff.”
December 2, 2022 A class action alleges crypto-bank Silvergate Capital Corporation and its chief executive and risk officers were complicit in and enabled massive losses linked to Nov. 2022's FTX collapse.
November 10, 2022 Executives at crypto firm Voyager Digital face a class action that alleges the Earn accounts and VGX token once offered by the bankrupt company were unregistered securities.
October 3, 2022 More than a dozen plaintiffs allege they were scammed into paying Just a Bit of Coin, Ltd for Bitcoin mining machines that the company never intended to deliver.
August 25, 2022 Coinbase faces a class action over its apparently poor track record of safeguarding users’ accounts from unauthorized access and theft and then helping out those whose assets have been stolen.
June 16, 2022 Binance U.S. faces a class action that alleges the crypto exchange broke the law by failing to register its terraUSD “stablecoin” as a security and misleading investors with regard to its stability.
May 17, 2022 Coinbase and the issuer of the GYEN cryptocurrency face a class action over their alleged failure to disclose the stablecoin’s apparent susceptibility to “wild fluctuations in value."
May 3, 2022 The entities behind the bZx cryptocurrency protocol face a class action that alleges a hack in which $55 million in assets was stolen stemmed from “simple negligence."
April 22, 2022 Mailchimp faces class action after an employee allegedly fell victim to an email phishing scam that ultimately allowed cybercriminals to steal some Trezor wallet users’ assets.
April 15, 2022 Stronghold Digital Mining faces a class action that alleges the company harmed investors financially by failing to disclose significant issues with suppliers.
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April 6, 2022 Uniswap Labs is among the defendants in a proposed class action that alleges the crypto exchange is besieged by “rampant fraud.”
March 15, 2022 A proposed class action alleges Coinbase has failed to disclose that 79 crypto tokens bought and sold on its platform are, in fact, unregistered securities.
January 10, 2022 Kim Kardashian, Floyd Mayweather, Paul Pierce and others face a class action that alleges the parties misled consumers who invested in EthereumMax (EMAX) cryptocurrency tokens.
January 6, 2022 The Voyager cryptocurrency trading platform has been misrepresented and designed deliberately to take advantage of young, inexperienced investors, a class action alleges.
November 17, 2021 Sixty-five plaintiffs allege Constellation Network has refused to allow investors to participate in a “swap” of the company’s original cryptocurrency token to its second token.
November 16, 2021 A Dallas consumer alleges Coinbase failed to safeguard his account against unauthorized cryptocurrency transactions and then locked him out.
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September 15, 2021 A class action alleges CoinMarketCap.com, Binance Capital Mgmt., and several other parties have artificially suppressed the value of HEX by manipulating rankings on the site to inflate the price of other cryptocurrencies.
August 10, 2021 A class action looks to represent consumers whose Coinbase “wallets” or accounts have allegedly been frozen by the nation’s largest cryptocurrency exchange or hacked by third parties.
January 6, 2021 A proposed class action alleges cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has illegally sold securities in exchange for commission payments without a license to do so.
January 5, 2021 A class action alleges Perkins Coie, LLP and several related entities misappropriated money they agreed to hold in escrow and distribute in accordance with “white paper” solicitation documents for an initial token offering.
October 9, 2019 A class action alleges Bitfinex and Tether colluded to manipulate the cryptocurrency market in a scheme investors say amounted to “part-fraud, part-pump-and-dump, and part-money laundering."
May 8, 2018 The suit seeks to represent investors who bought Ripple Labs' XRP tokens through what the plaintiff calls a 'never-ending' ICO that may violate fed. securities law.
