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Uniswap lawsuit dismissed with prejudice by Judge Failla.
Court says open code not liable for user misuse.
Ruling protects DeFi builders and permissionless platforms.
Uniswap won a major court battle on March 2, 2026. Judge Katherine Failla dismissed the Risley class action lawsuit with prejudice. That means the case is closed for good. It cannot be filed again. This ends a long legal fight that has been hanging over the biggest decentralized exchange in crypto.
The big question was simple. If users trade scam tokens on an open platform, can the people who wrote the code be blamed? The judge said no. That answer may protect the whole DeFi space.
Judge Says Open Code Is Not Responsible for User Scams
The lawsuit claimed Uniswap Labs and founder Hayden Adams helped scam tokens trade on the platform. The argument was that because Uniswap created the marketplace, it should be responsible for the fraud that happened there.
Judge Failla disagreed. She said it “d
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