Coinbase has filed its response to BiT International’s lawsuit over the delisting of Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC).
Justin Solar-advised BiT International’s unique lawsuit centered round Coinbase’s resolution to delist WBTC. The custody supplier alleged that this was an unfair assault on its status that would probably result in it shedding “more than $1 billion in its market valuation.”
It moreover alleges that Coinbase was making an attempt to monopolize the tokenized bitcoin (BTC) area to favor its personal product, Coinbase Wrapped Bitcoin (cbBTC).
BiT International is searching for an order that might obligate Coinbase to relist WBTC.
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In its response to the lawsuit, Coinbase took intention at Solar. It identified that the choice to delist WBTC was centered round a perception that there was an “unacceptable risk that control of wBTC would fall into the hands of Justin Sun.”
Coinbase’s submitting additionally famous that BiT International “refused to answer” questions “about who ultimately owned and controlled BiT.”
Moreover, the alternate famous that it makes up “less than 1% of transactions involving wBTC,” suggesting BiT might have been exaggerating the potential hurt to its enterprise from this delisting.
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The submitting additionally challenges the reputational harms prompt by BiT International, mentioning that “long before Coinbase took any action,” the market already began to react to the change in WBTC. In line with Coinbase, this implies “any diminished trust in wBTC was caused by its association with Mr. Sun — not by Coinbase.”
Reveals hooked up to the filings and declarations additionally straight requested BiT International about Solar’s different tokenized BTC challenge, which is obtainable by Poloniex and for which he refuses to verify collateral.
BiT wasn’t capable of confirm the collateral of this different product.
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