Terraform admin blames Jane Street alleged insider trading for collapse

Terraform Labs administrator Todd Snyder accused Jane Street of communicating with the now-collapsed firm and trading on the information, hastening its collapse.

The court-appointed administrator leading crypto company Terraform Labs through its bankruptcy has sued trading firm Jane Street, accusing it of insider trading that worsened the collapse of the multibillion-dollar Terra ecosystem.

On Monday, Todd Snyder, Terraform’s court-appointed administrator, sued Jane Street, its co-founder Robert Granieri, and employees Bryce Pratt and Michael Huang in a Manhattan federal court, accusing them of “misappropriating confidential information and manipulating market prices.”

The heavily redacted complaint claimed Jane Street used connections with “Terraform insiders to learn material non-public information” about the company and used the information to sell off tokens tied to the Terra blockchain that worsened its collapse.

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