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B2C2 Ltd. v. Quoine Pte Ltd.
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Quoine Pte Ltd. (“Quoine”) (defendant) operated a centralized currency exchange platform that enabled the trading of cryptocurrencies. Quoine had a program in place that received other trading platforms’ prices to ensure that its trades were consistent with those prices. One day, Quoine’s program temporarily failed, causing Quoine’s prices to be out of sync with the global market. As a result of this failure, Quoine used a program that required the sale of assets held by traders on its platforms. B2C2 Ltd. (“B2C2”) (plaintiff) had developed an algorithm designed by its programmer Maxime Boonen that was designed to profit off inefficiencies in the cryptocurrency-trading market. B2C2 offered to fill seven orders on Quoine’s platform. The orders were at a much higher price than what was available on the global market. In doing so, B2C2 received a profit of several million dollars on the orders from cryptocurrency traders. But the next day, Quoine reversed the trades in its order book. B2C2 sued Quoine for breach of contract. Quoine asserted the defense of unilateral mistake, alleging that the parties would have never gone through with the transaction had it happened in face-to-face negotiations. Thus, the programs—which Quoine argued operated as the parties’ “agents”—failed to capture the parties “real intent.”
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