U.S. SEC Sues Tron Founder Justin Sun; Claims TRX & BTT Are Unregistered Securities
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has filed numerous charges against cryptocurrency tycoon Justin Sun and three affiliated companies, including the notable Tron Foundation Limited. These charges pertain to the unregistered offer and sale of two cryptocurrencies, as well as accusations of market manipulation and the distribution of airdrops that involve comparable securities without proper registration. SEC Files Lawsuit Against Justin Sun In a press release on Wednesday, the SEC announced that it intends to file a lawsuit against Justin Sun, the Tron Foundation, the BitTorrent Foundation, and Rainberry over the sale of Tron (TRX) and BitTorrent (BTT) tokens, which the watchdog considers to be unregistered securities. The regulator also claimed that the defendants participated in “extensive wash trading” in an attempt to fraudulently manipulate TRXs secondary market. Sun gained notoriety after attending a $4.5 million dinner with Warren Buffet in 2020. According to the allegations, Sun attempted to artificially inflate TRXs trading volume by engaging in over 600,000 wash trades of TRX between two crypto asset trading platform accounts that he controlled, involving his own employees. The SEC claims that this scheme required a significant supply of TRX, which Sun allegedly provided. The sale of TRX in the secondary market also generated