A 32-year-old former product manager at OpenSea has been found guilty of fraudulently purchasing non-fungible tokens he knew would sharply increase in value, in the first conviction for what prosecutors described as insider trading of digital assets.
“He cheated, he stole, and he lied,” assistant US attorney Allison Nichols told jurors in closing arguments on Monday. “He saw a way to make some extra money, to capture some upside”.
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