US Arrests Former Employee of Opensea NFT Marketplace in ‘First-Ever Digital ...

US Arrests Former Employee of Opensea NFT Marketplace in ‘First-Ever Digital ...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has indicted an employee of non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace Opensea in what the department called the “first-ever digital asset insider trading scheme.” DOJ Indicts Former Opensea Product Manager The DOJ announced Wednesday the unsealing of an indictment charging Nathaniel Chastain, a former product manager at Ozone Networks Inc. (aka Opensea), in its “first-ever digital asset insider trading scheme.” Chastain was arrested Wednesday morning in New York. The Justice Department explained that from....


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