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Two Robinhood Engineers Charged by DOJ for Front-Running Crypto Listings on Hyperliquid
Read this in the Market Flux appFederal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York have charged two Robinhood engineers with fraud for allegedly using confidential company information to trade ahead of the platform's own token listing announcements. The two employees are accused of taking positions in tokens on Hyperliquid, a decentralized perpetuals exchange, before Robinhood publicly announced those listings, giving them an illegal edge over ordinary investors.
According to the Department of Justice, the scheme ran between 2025 and 2026, with the engineers trading Hyperliquid perpetual contracts using non-public information about which tokens Robinhood planned to list. The charges mark one of the first high-profile crypto insider trading cases to center on a decentralized derivatives platform rather than a centralized exchange.
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- WallstengineTWO $HOOD EMPLOYEES CHARGED IN CRYPTO INSIDER TRADING SCHEME They traded Hyperliquid perpetuals ahead of upcoming token listings using confidential information, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.
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