{"id":5253,"date":"2025-04-13T00:30:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T00:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/crypto-investment-firm-alleges-16m-rug-pull-by-defi-insiders\/"},"modified":"2025-04-13T00:30:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T00:30:18","slug":"crypto-investment-firm-alleges-16m-rug-pull-by-defi-insiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/crypto-investment-firm-alleges-16m-rug-pull-by-defi-insiders\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto Investment Firm Alleges $16M \u2018Rug Pull\u2019 by DeFi Insiders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>Hash Asset Management Ltd. sued the founders of the ICHI crypto protocol in Delaware state court for orchestrating what the digital asset investment firm alleged was a pump-and-dump scheme that caused the collapse of a yield-earning cryptocurrency pool, wiping out over $16 million in investor capital.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>Daniel A. Griffith, co-chair of the litigation department at<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitefordlaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <u>Whiteford, Taylor &amp; Preston<\/u><\/a> in Delaware, and George Benaur, of counsel at<a href=\"https:\/\/www.belgravia.law\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <u>Belgravia Law<\/u><\/a> in New York, represent the plaintiff, Hash, in its lawsuit against DMA Labs Inc., its officers Bryan Gross and Nick Poore, the ICHI Foundation, its associate Tyler Pinter and its business manager Julian Brand.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hash Asset Management Ltd. sued the founders of the ICHI crypto protocol in Delaware state court for orchestrating what the digital asset investment firm alleged was a pump-and-dump [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1456,1796,878,5496,184,5497,3480,5495,5494],"class_list":["post-5253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-16m","tag-alleges","tag-crypto","tag-defi","tag-firm","tag-insiders","tag-investment","tag-pull","tag-rug"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}