While Solana (SOL) is making its mark in 2024 with its rise, an interesting event took place on the Solana front in the last days of the year.
Accordingly, Solana co-founder Stephen Akridge was sued by his ex-wife Elisa Rossi.
Elisa Rossi alleged that her ex-husband was secretly profiting and making millions of dollars worth of money from SOL staking rewards.
Rossi noted that her ex-husband, Akridge, helped found Solana Labs in 2018 before becoming the company's chief engineer and is now the CEO of cybersecurity firm Cyber Grant.
At this point, he alleged that Akridge abused his crypto expertise to gain access to his crypto wallet and secretly embezzle SOL staking rewards that were supposed to belong to him.
The couple divorced in early 2023, and Elisa Rossi received a significant amount of Solana from her ex-husband across three crypto wallets as part of the divorce settlement. However, Akridge continued to control the wallets and received the staking rewards himself.
“Akridge granted his ex-wife Rossi's Solana wallet control over three accounts containing Solana tokens, but continued to secretly stake Ms. Rossi's Solana tokens and earn millions of dollars in staking rewards through May 2024,” Rossi's lawyers wrote in the lawsuit.
The complaint stated that the number of SOL tokens and the amount allegedly stolen were censored as part of the embezzlement.
*This is not investment advice.
