EOS Token (EOS) Soars Over 20% After Court Ruling Over Block.one Deal

Block.one is the company that originally created the network EOS. (Image: Pexels/Ekaterina Bolovtsova)

the price of EOS token (EOS) jumped more than 20% this Wednesday (17), just days after a court decision in the Southern District of New York.

At the time of publishing this news, EOS was trading at $1.55 – an increase of 20.5% in the last 24 hours, according to data from CoinMarketCap.

The price movement of EOS this Wednesday separates the cryptocurrency from the rest of the market, since bitcoin (BTC) and ethereum (ETH) were down 1.4% and 2.1% in the same period, respectively.

In May 2020, a group of investors sued block.one – company that originally created the network EOS – claiming that the initial coin offering (ICO) was a securities sale. In response, block.one agreed to a $27.5 million deal with investors.

However, this Monday (15), the proposed agreement was denied. In the Southern District of New York, Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled that the lead plaintiff in the class action against block.oneCrypto Assets Opportunity Fund LLC, does not adequately represent the interests of all investors.

Block.one X EOS Community

block.one it is also facing battles on other fronts. In December 2021the community of EOS voted to suspend ongoing payments to block.oneclaiming that the company no longer considered the interests of the network.

The decision was led by a group of blockbusters and producers EOScalled EOS Network Foundation (ENF). The community also renamed the codebase from EOSIO to Antelope.

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