FractureLabs Sues Jump Trading, Accusing the Firm of Market Manipulation

FractureLabs, the developer of the online game “Decimated,” has filed a lawsuit against Jump Trading. accusing the firm of market manipulation

FractureLabs, the company behind the online game “Decimated,” has filed a lawsuit against Jump Trading, accusing the crypto market maker of manipulating the market for the game's native token, DIO, in a “pump and dump” scheme, Bloomberg News reported on Oct. 16.

The complaint, filed in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, alleges that Jump engaged in a “scheme to manipulate the market for DIO tokens on crypto markets, causing traders to suffer substantial losses.”

FractureLabs had planned to raise funds through an initial offering of DIO on HTX — formerly Huobi — and hired Jump as a market maker in 2021, according to the filing.

As part of their agreement, FractureLabs loaned 10 million DIO tokens to Jump’s subsidiary and sent 6 million tokens to HTX for the sale.

After the token’s price climbed to $0.98, Jump allegedly liquidated its holdings, causing DIO to crash to less than half a cent. The firm then repurchased the tokens at a fraction of the price, returned them to FractureLabs, and canceled its market-making contract.

FractureLabs asserts that Jump misrepresented its intentions and violated an agreement to maintain the token’s price within a specified range under Huobi’s listing conditions. As a result, HTX withheld most of a $1.5 million Tether (USDT) deposit made by FractureLabs, which the company is now seeking through arbitration.

While HTX has declined to comment due to ongoing litigation, it emphasized its commitment to operating within legal frameworks.

“HTX is committed to operating within the relevant legal and regulatory frameworks and takes its compliance obligations seriously,” a spokesperson for the exchange toldжурналистам.

Past controversiesThis is the latest controversy involving Jump Crypto. In the lawsuit moved by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against Terraform Labs in February 2023, the regulator stated its belief that Jump was “instrumental” in the downfall of the UST stablecoin, USTC.

Although Jump is not a defendant in the Terraform Labs case, the regulator stated that when UST lost parity with the US dollar for the first time in May 2021, Jump allegedly helped Terraform Labs reestablish the peg.

In June, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) reportedly started investigating Jump’s activities in the crypto market. However, the regulator’s probe does not imply any misconduct by the market maker.

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