HBZ Investors Urge Court to Block Smart Contract Destruction

Helbiz Inc is dealing with a class-action lawsuit from traders for its plan to destroy the sensible contract underpinning its ERC-20 token, HelbizCoin (HBZ). The electrical scooter firm initially claimed to have raised virtually $40 million {dollars} for a cryptocurrency billed to disrupt the ride-sharing economic system in 2017.

In a July 6 memorandum filed by the plaintiffs in help of their request for a short lived restraining order and preliminary injunction towards the agency, the traders declare to signify roughly 20,000 people who now face the everlasting destruction of their non-public property.

The plaintiffs assert that HBZ is orchestrating the destruction of its token to “shut the books on the cryptocurrency legal responsibility and make approach for them to difficulty inventory in an [initial public offering] IPO.”

HelbizCoin traders face token destruction

With HelbizCoin planning to terminate the sensible contract underpinning HBZ, the order seeks to forestall the defendants from “destroying the pc code that permits [HBZ] to exist.”

The memorandum asserts that the contract’s destruction would comprise “a trespass and conversion of non-public property (at minimal).”

Plaintiffs additionally argue that “the threatened destruction of non-public property is a well-established foundation for an injunction,” emphasizing that after destroyed, “the contract […] can by no means be restored.”

The defendants have claimed that the contracts are managed by “the non-party HBZ Programs PTE LTD,” nevertheless, the plaintiffs assert that stated illustration is “false.”

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The Italian-American firm introduced plans for an IPO in June 2019, the identical month that Italy’s Minister of Transportation permitted micro-mobility companies to function in cities collaborating in an e-scooter trial.

Nonetheless, plaintiffs assert that the IPO has come on the expense of HBZ traders, with the defendants accused of “distancing themselves from the coin ever since its worth dropped by over 99%.”