{"id":6118,"date":"2020-12-17T02:40:58","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T02:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/tron-asks-ny-judge-to-turf-ico-suit-from-binance-bag-holders"},"modified":"2020-12-17T07:13:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T07:13:11","slug":"tron-asks-ny-judge-to-turf-ico-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/tron-asks-ny-judge-to-turf-ico-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"Tron asks NY judge to turf ICO suit from Binance bag holders"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Tron Foundation<\/a> has requested a New York federal judge dismiss a class action lawsuit alleging securities violations through TRX’s 2017 initial coin offering<\/a>, describing the claims as \u201cfatally flawed.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Chinese blockchain developer filed a motion to dismiss on Dec. 15<\/a>, asserting that the case has \u201cno connection\u201d to New York. The foundation also emphasized that the lead plaintiffs did not participate in TRX\u2019s ICO, and that they filed the suit roughly two years after the offering\u2019s completion:<\/p>\n

\u201cDespite having not purchased during the initial offering or from Tron, plaintiffs attempt to form a nexus between their purchases and alleged marketing activities by TRX.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Tron argued that the complaint does not allege that U.S.-based investors participated in the ICO.<\/p>\n

The motion also notes that the three lead plaintiffs purchased their TRX tokens through secondary exchange, Binance, asserting the suit should be dropped as it appeals to securities laws that do not apply to secondary market purchases.<\/p>\n

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Tron argued that the plaintiffs\u2019 decision to purchase TRX years after the ICO through a secondary exchange has no connection to the TRX Foundation.<\/p>\n

The defendants also dismissed allegations that TRX\u2019s 2017 whitepaper was misleading through characterizing TRX tokens as not comprising securities, stating:<\/p>\n

\u201cThis claim was not even pleaded in the original complaint, and it is nothing but a litigation afterthought.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The lawsuit was filed on April 3, the same day that 10 other suits were lodged in the Southern District of New York<\/a> against crypto exchanges and issuers, all of which alleged the distribution of unregistered securities.<\/p>\n

Tron conducted its ICO<\/h3>\n

Tron conducted its ICO from Aug. 24, 2017 until Sept. 2, 2017, raking in $70 million for its TRX tokens that it described as the native currency for its online platform.<\/p>\n

Source: COINTELEGRAPH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Tron Foundation has requested a New York federal judge dismiss a class action lawsuit alleging securities violations through TRX’s 2017 initial coin offering, describing the claims as \u201cfatally flawed.\u201d The Chinese blockchain developer filed a motion to dismiss on Dec. 15, asserting that the case has \u201cno connection\u201d to New York. The foundation also…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[447,448],"class_list":["post-6118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-crypto-news","tag-tron","tag-tron-foundation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6123,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6118\/revisions\/6123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}