Dapper Labs 以 400 万美元和解集体诉讼证券诉讼

该和解仍须得到纽约法院的批准。

NFT Company Dapper Labs Settles Class Action Securities Suit for $4M

NFT 公司 Dapper Labs 以 400 万美元和解集体诉讼证券诉讼

Non-fungible token (NFT) company Dapper Labs has agreed to pay $4 million to settle a class action lawsuit that alleged the company violated federal securities laws with its flagship product, NBA Top Shot Moments.

非同质代币 (NFT) 公司 Dapper Labs 同意支付 400 万美元来和解一项集体诉讼，该诉讼指控该公司的旗舰产品 NBA Top Shot Moments 违反了联邦证券法。

The settlement, which still needs to be approved by a New York court, would end a nearly three-year legal battle between Dapper Labs and a group of investors.

该和解协议仍需纽约法院批准，将结束 Dapper Labs 与一群投资者之间近三年的法律纠纷。

The plaintiffs in the suit claimed that Moments NFTs were unregistered securities because their value increased with the popularity of the project as a whole. They also alleged that Dapper Labs prevented investors from cashing out for “months on end” to keep value locked on the platform, and did not allow Moments to be bought or sold on outside NFT platforms at the time the suit was filed.

诉讼中的原告声称，Moments NFT 是未注册的证券，因为它们的价值随着整个项目的受欢迎程度而增加。他们还声称，Dapper Labs 阻止投资者“连续几个月”兑现，以将价值锁定在平台上，并且在提起诉讼时不允许在外部 NFT 平台上买卖 Moments。

Dapper Labs' lawyers have maintained that their NFTs are not securities, arguing that they were essentially digital basketball cards in court filings.

Dapper Labs 的律师坚称他们的 NFT 不是证券，并在法庭文件中辩称它们本质上是数字篮球卡。

Under the terms of the settlement agreement, which was filed on Monday, the plaintiffs will be barred from claiming that their NFTs are securities, in exchange for an aggregate settlement fund of $4 million. The money will go towards payments to the class members, attorneys’ fees and settlement administrator costs, according to Dapper Labs co-founder and CEO Roham Gharegozlou.

根据周一提交的和解协议条款，原告将被禁止声称其 NFT 是证券，以换取总计 400 万美元的和解资金。 Dapper Labs 联合创始人兼首席执行官 Roham Gharegozlou 表示，这笔资金将用于支付集体成员的费用、律师费和和解管理费用。

Dapper Labs also agreed to other business changes to settle the suit, according to a representative for the company. These include the implementation of mandatory employee training programs focused on “compliance with federal securities laws and ethical marketing practices” and increased payment and withdrawal speeds.

据该公司的一位代表称，Dapper Labs 还同意进行其他业务变更以解决诉讼。其中包括实施强制性员工培训计划，重点是“遵守联邦证券法和道德营销实践”以及提高付款和取款速度。

Additionally, Dapper Labs promised to relinquish any control over its remaining FLOW tokens to the Flow Foundation, a move that is meant to ensure the decentralization of the Flow ecosystem.

此外，Dapper Labs 承诺将对剩余 FLOW 代币的任何控制权放弃给 Flow 基金会，此举旨在确保 Flow 生态系统的去中心化。

While the proposed settlement is between Dapper Labs and investors, not regulators, Gharegozlou told CoinDesk the agreement was a “great start” towards increased legal clarity on whether the company's NFTs can be classified as securities.

虽然拟议的和解协议是在 Dapper Labs 和投资者之间而非监管机构之间达成的，但 Gharegozlou 告诉 CoinDesk，该协议是一个“良好的开端”，有助于提高该公司 NFT 是否可以归类为证券的法律清晰度。

“We are continuing to push for more overarching regulatory clarity to showcase that consumer NFTs are not financial products and, as such, should be regulated under well-established consumer protection regimes at the state level,” Gharegozlou said. “This includes pushing for legislation at the federal level that makes it clear that consumer product NFTs, such as NBA Top Shot, are not subject to federal financial regulation.”

Gharegozlou 表示：“我们正在继续推动更全面的监管透明度，以表明消费者 NFT 不是金融产品，因此应该在州一级完善的消费者保护制度下受到监管。” “这包括推动联邦层面的立法，明确消费产品 NFT（例如 NBA Top Shot）不受联邦金融监管。”

Gharegozlou added that the company is “not aware of any regulator” like the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) claiming that Moments NFTs are securities. In April, Fortune reported that the SEC had at one time launched an investigation into Dapper Labs but closed it in September 2023.

Gharegozlou 补充说，该公司“不知道有任何监管机构”如美国证券交易委员会 (SEC) 声称 Moments NFT 是证券。今年 4 月，《财富》报道称 SEC 曾一度对 Dapper Labs 发起调查，但于 2023 年 9 月结束。