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Key Insights 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 “defies logic” to blame the writers of smart contract code for how other people use it. In plain terms, writing open code is not the same as running a scam. Judge Failla Headed The Panel | Source: X Uniswap is permissionless. Anyone can create a token. Anyone can trade it. The protocol does not choose which tokens get listed. It runs automated smart contracts that let buyers and sellers swap directly. If the court had ruled the other way, the result could have been serious. Every DeFi protocol might have become legally responsible for every scam on its platform. That would make open platforms almost impossible to run. Developers would face lawsuits for actions they did not control. The judge’s decision follows an earlier dismissal of federal claims. Now the state-level claims are gone too. For Uniswap,…

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