
CFTC, Avraham Eisenberg'i Mango Pazarı İstismarı İçin Suçladı
- CFTC, dijital sanatçı Avraham Eisenberg'e Mango Market istismarıyla ilgili iki piyasa manipülasyonu suçlamasıyla dava açtı.
- It claims that Eisenberg “engaged in a manipulative and deceptive scheme to artificially inflate the price of swaps offered by the DeFi platform.”
- Gretchen Lowe, düzenleyicinin dolandırıcılık ve manipülasyon suçlamalarını agresif bir şekilde takip etmek için mevcut tüm yaptırım araçlarını kullanacağını belirtti.
On January 9, the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a lawsuit against Avraham Eisenberg, a self-described digital artist, for two charges of market manipulation related to last year’s major exploit of decentralized financial platform Mango Markets. Eisenberg is currently in police custody after being detained on related charges on December 27.
Binaen to the regulatory agency, between October 11, 2022, and October 15, 2022, Eisenberg “engaged in a manipulative and deceptive scheme to artificially inflate the price of swaps offered by Mango Markets, a decentralized digital asset exchange, culminating in the misappropriation of over $100 million from the platform.”
Moreover, the self-described digital artist allegedly purchased more than 400 million MNGO-USDC swaps on Mango Markets with a position size of around $19 million. The CFTC claims that the defendant then purchased “large quantities” of MNGO tokens on the Oracle Exchanges over a span of less than 30 minutes.
The rise in the price of MNGO was advantageous to Eisenberg, who borrowed cryptocurrencies worth around $144 million from Mango Markets at a higher price. After this, the price of Mango Market’s native token fell, leaving the platform illiquid. The CFTC stated that the artist’s actions resulted in a “wash transaction.”
Acting Director of Enforcement Gretchen Lowe stated that CFTC “will use all available enforcement tools to aggressively pursue fraud and manipulation regardless of the technology that is utilized. The CEA prohibits deception and swap manipulation, whether on a registered swap execution facility or on a decentralized blockchain-based trading platform.”
Düzenleyici ayrıca şunları iddia etti:
“The goal of Defendant’s scheme was straightforward: to artificially inflate the value of his swap contract holdings on Mango Markets through price manipulation, so that he could ‘borrow’ a significant amount of digital assets that he had no intention to repay.”
However, the defendant’s manipulation led to an illusion about the value of his collateral. In order to stop manipulating MNGO and the MNGO-USDC Swaps after “borrowing” digital assets from Mango Markets, the defendant transferred the borrowed digital assets out of his Mango Markets account.
MNGO-USDC takaslarının değeri, MNGO'nun fiyatı manipülasyon öncesi seviyesinin altına düştüğü için aynı anda düştü. Bu, davalının borçlarının ciddi şekilde eksik teminatlandırılmasına ve Mango Markets'in neredeyse eli boş kalmasına neden oldu.
Eisenberg, 15 Ekim 2022 tarihli bir tweet'te Mango Markets saldırısının arkasında olduğunu itiraf etti ve eylemlerinin haklı olduğunu savundu. Eisenberg daha önce 70 milyon USD Coin (USDC) veya $70 milyon bug ödülü için isimsiz bir talepte bulunmuştu. Mango Markets topluluğu, kendisine karşı yasal işlem yapılmasına karşı oy kullandı. $47 milyonu elinde tutmasına izin vermek.
“All mango depositors will be made whole. By voting for this proposal, mango token holders agree to pay off the bad debt with the treasury, and waive any potential claims against accounts with bad debt, and will not pursue any criminal investigations or freezing of funds once the tokens are sent back as described above,” read the governance proposal.
27 Aralık'ta Eisenberg'in ABD Adalet Bakanlığı tarafından gözaltına alınması ve bir adet emtia dolandırıcılığı ve bir adet emtia manipülasyonu ile suçlanması ilginçtir. CFTC, onu Emtia Borsası Yasasını ve diğer bazı komisyon düzenlemelerini çiğnemekle suçladı.