A federal appeals court docket has overturned the conviction of Nathaniel Chastain, a former OpenSea supervisor discovered responsible of wire fraud and cash laundering for utilizing insider data to commerce non-fungible tokens.

In a Thursday resolution, the Second Circuit dominated that the jury was improperly instructed and will have convicted Chastain for unethical conduct slightly than misappropriating a conventional property curiosity, a requirement beneath federal fraud statutes.

Related articles

United States, Court
Supply: US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

It is a growing story, and additional data will likely be added because it turns into out there.