The lawsuit, introduced final week, is the primary to be introduced in opposition to members of a DAO by the CFTC, and will have wide-ranging penalties for DAO regulation sooner or later. Expenses have been additionally filed and settled in opposition to a blockchain protocol, bZeroX – which the CFTC claims operated the identical service earlier than handing over the reins to Ooki DAO – and two of its founders, who settled for a $250,000 financial penalty.