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 <p class="is-style-lead">A former investor has filed a class action lawsuit against Lido DAO in a District Court of San Francisco.</p>
 <p>The plaintiff, Andrew Samuels, a Solano County, California resident, has filed a lawsuit over the potential mismanagement and distribution of Lido tokens.&nbsp; The lawsuit claims that the Lido token is effectively an unregistered security, thereby making Lido DAO, along with several venture capital and investment management firms, responsible for the financial losses incurred by the plaintiffs due to the token’s decline in value.</p>
 <p>In the <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="lawsuit" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/lawsuit.html">lawsuit</a>, Samuels emphasizes that a significant majority, approximately 64%, of Lido <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="token" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/token.html">token</a>s are in the hands of a select few founding members and early-stage investors. These entities include notable venture capital firms such as Paradigm, AH Capital Management, Dragonfly Digital Management, and Robert Ventures. This concentration of <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="token" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/token.html">token</a> ownership, the plaintiff argues, has marginalized the influence of regular investors on the governance and decision-making processes within the Lido ecosystem.</p>
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 <p>The narrative of the <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="lawsuit" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/lawsuit.html">lawsuit</a> delves into the origins of Lido DAO, which initially emerged as a general partnership comprising institutional investors. Over time, the organization shifted its strategy to offer what is referred to as a ‘potential exit opportunity’ for these investors.</p>
 <p>The shift led to the public sale of Lido tokens, facilitated by their listing on centralized cryptocurrency exchanges. It is asserted that this move attracted investments from a wide array of investors, including the plaintiff, but subsequently led to a downturn in the token’s market value, resulting in substantial losses for these investors.</p>
 <p>The lawsuit also claims that Lido tokens may qualify as securities because a central group manages them and that investors purchased them with expectations of profit, primarily influenced by the actions and decisions of this central group.</p>
 <p>If proven, the <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="lawsuit" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/lawsuit.html">lawsuit</a> makes some bold <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="claims" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/claims.html">claims</a>, which could create significant challenges for the DAO. Lido is one of the leading liquidity staking protocols in the market, with its TVL recently hitting an all-time high of $22 billion.</p>
 <p>At the time of writing, the DAO has yet to release a statement on the issue.&nbsp;</p>
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Investor files lawsuit against Lido DAO, claims unfair token control

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