Pump.Fun Hit with proposed trial of class case claiming securities violations

Memecoin Generator Pump.Fun was hit by another proposed lawsuit on Thursday and accused the company and its leaders of tearing in nearly $ 500 million in fees while violating US securities legislation.

The case, which was filed in the southern district of New York (SDNY), is linked to the crypto industry’s biggest lingering question – when is a sign of a security? Although the case claims that any symbol created using pump.Fun’s platform is a security and thus subject to US securities legislation, it is far from a matter of fixed law. According to the new Donald Trump administration, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has indicated that it is changing the tackle of crypto regulation, creating a new crypto -task force accused of establishing a clear regulatory framework for the industry.

The leading plaintiff in Thursday’s suit, Diego Aguilar, claimed to have lost money in trading with three pumps.Fun-created Memecoins in particular-fwog, peace and griffain. Although pump.Fun does not even create any of the tokens covered by suit, the archiving is accusing the company of “Orchestrat[ing] This scheme by providing automated tools that allow everyone to create and sell almost worthless digital tokens in minutes “and thus qualify as a” common issuer “of all tokens launched on its platform.

Aguillar’s suit names a British-registered company called Baton Corporation, as it claims is the operator of Pump.Fun, as well as three of the company’s co-founders-Coo Alon Cohen, CTO Dylan Kerler and CEO Noah Tweedale. Cohen refused to comment and told Coindesk that he spoke to himself and not the company. The other members of the team could not be reached at press time.

The law firm, which filed a suit, New York-based Wolf Popper LLP, brought another class case against pump.Fun just two weeks ago. This case, filed on January 16, has another leading plaintiff, but similarly accuses Baton Corporation and its three co-founders of selling an unregistered security-pnut tokenet, a Solana-based Memecoin inspired by the peanut in the squirrel, As the case claims reached a market value of $ 1 billion. At the time of publication, the Pnut token is down 89% from its high at $ 2.25 last November.

Wolf Popper LLP along with crypto-court case-focused company Burwick Law is also behind the recent trial filed against the promoters of the Hawk token, a Memecoin tied to influencer Hailey Welch, alias Hawk Tuah.

Although pump.Fun was only launched a year ago, the Solana-based Memecoin Factory is not foreign to controversy. Last March, the British financial regulator issued a warning against the platform, leading pump.Fun to ban UK-based users. It also came under fire for its now the final livestream function, which allowed some users to promote their tokens with violent or sexual content.

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The case is looking for compensation and lawyer.

Danny Nelson contributed reporting.

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