{"id":127638,"date":"2025-04-21T21:20:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T21:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=127638"},"modified":"2025-04-21T21:20:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T21:20:29","slug":"investors-sue-meteora-and-vc-firm-alleging-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=127638","title":{"rendered":"Investors sue Meteora and VC firm, alleging fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsA group of investors has filed a class-action lawsuit against decentralized cryptocurrency exchange Meteora, alleging the firm was involved in manipulating the launch and market price of the M3M3 token.<br \/>\nIn an amended complaint filed on April 21 in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, the plaintiffs allege that venture capital firm Kelsier Labs, Meteora, and four current or former executives \u201cintentionally misrepresented\u201d information in the M3M3 launch in December 2024.<br \/>\nThe investors claimed that they suffered at least $69 million in losses between December 2024 and February 2025 after the parties presented \u201ctrusted leaders in the Solana ecosystem\u201d as being behind the token launch, rather than a \u201cblatant fraud\u201d in which sales were manipulated to artificially inflate the price.<br \/>\n\u201cThis artificially-inflated valuation communicated highly misleading information to non-insider investors, who reasonably relied on Defendants\u2019 representations that the $M3M3 launch was fully accessible to the public and conducted in a transparent manner fair to non-insider investors, and thus reasonably relied on $M3M3 market price as a meaningful measure of its value,\u201d the complaint reads. \u201cThe post-launch price spike also served to corroborate Defendants\u2019 aggressively-marketed, but misleading, assertions that $M3M3 had intrinsic value and a comparatively low risk profile.\u201d<br \/>\nClass-action lawsuit against Meteora, Kelsier Labs, and current and former executives. Source: PACERThe lawsuit is one of many involving different crypto firms that have alleged fraud through violations of US securities laws. Though the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), under acting chair Mark Uyeda since US President Donald Trump took office, has scaled back or dismissed many enforcement actions involving digital assets, the agency said in February it still intended to pursue cases against fraudulent token projects.<br \/>\nThe investors added:<br \/>\n\u201cTogether, Defendants designed the $M3M3 Token and planned its launch on Meteora in a manner intended to illicitly enrich themselves at the expense of the unsuspecting investing public.\u201d<br \/>\nRelated: Meteora says co-founder\u2019s X account hacked after \u2018parasitic\u2019 memecoin post<br \/>\nMemecoins in the Solana ecosystem<br \/>\nMeteora has been tied to the launch of several high-profile yet controversial tokens, including those for Trump (TRUMP), his wife Melania (MELANIA), Libra (LIBRA), and online influencer Haliey Welch (HAWK).<br \/>\nAccording to the lawsuit, the firm \u201cpurported to offer a comprehensive solution to the problems in the memecoin investment market\u201d with the launch of M3M3. The defendants in the case allegedly attempted to distinguish the token from other notable memecoins by highlighting the \u201clegitimacy and trustworthiness\u201d through the involvement of Meteora co-founder Ben Chow and the platform.<br \/>\nKelsier Ventures, KIP Protocol, and Meteora face a similar class-action lawsuit filed in New York in March over LIBRA allegedly being launched in a \u201cdeceptive, manipulative and fundamentally unfair\u201d manner. Argentine President Javier Milei briefly promoted the token over social media after his sister reportedly received payments from the project.<br \/>\nMagazine: Memecoin degeneracy is funding groundbreaking anti-aging research<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/meteora-class-action-lawsuit-alleging-blatant-fraud-involving-fraud-m3m3?utm_source=rss_feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsA group of investors has filed a class-action lawsuit against decentralized cryptocurrency exchange Meteora, alleging the firm was involved in manipulating the launch and market price of the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127638"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}