The class action lawsuit filed in 2020 alleged that Maker-related entities knowingly misrepresented risks of holding collateral debt positions and caused heavy losses for some users during the March 2020 market crash.
The network’s developers implemented a new feature last year to let some users to pay extra to avoid congestion. Even the elevated “priority fee” rate is still considered low, so the adoption rate is growing.
The government agency not only “piggybacked” off of the DOJ’s case, but is using it as a way to define some tokens as securities, Perianne Boring, the Chamber of Digital Commerce’s founder, told “First Mover.”