A Texas judge has dismissed the class-action lawsuit filed against Logan Paul for his NFT project CryptoZoo.
Judge Alan D. Albright dismissed the case with prejudice, excusing Paul’s promises about how CryptoZoo would be “a really fun game that makes you money” as “puffery” instead of fraud.
“Defendant Paul’s depiction of the project as one backed by a ‘massive team’ and funded by ‘like a million dollars’ also constitutes puffery,” Albright wrote, then went on to clarify that “puffery” means “an exaggerated, blustering, and boasting statement upon which no reasonable buyer would be justified in relying.”
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He said if Paul’s claims about getting a CryptoZoo game off the ground hadn’t been so “vague,” and if Paul had promised a hard launch date and failed to deliver, that might have been “material” grounds for fraud.
The dismissal was filed Oct. 29, 2025, over four years since Paul introduced CryptoZoo. For those who don’t remember (or were blissfully offline during the crypto bro NFT boom), CryptoZoo was pitched as a hybrid NFT/game project: CryptoZoo-the-NFT-collection would launch first, allowing people to buy digital “eggs”; then, once CryptoZoo-the-game launched, the eggs would hatch into (potentially Adobe stock photo-based) jpegs of chimera-esque animals. Hatches generated $ZOO token, CryptoZoo’s cryptocurrency, and animals could be bred to produce hybrids.
CryptoZoo-the-NFT-collection debuted in September 2021, and nearly 3,000 eggs were minted on OpenSea with a starting mint price of .1 ETH. Buyers understandably anticipated using those eggs in the upcoming promised CryptoZoo-the-game.
But the game never came out, and without it, CryptoZoo NFTs, which had tanked in value, didn’t have much functionality.
Dissatisfied buyers were stranded for several years until, in early 2024, Paul offered to buy back $2.3 million worth of CryptoZoo. Specifically, he would buy back every base egg and base animal NFT for 0.1 ETH ($227 then, around $330 now), but would not buy back any $ZOO token.
The only catch was, anyone who sold their NFTs back to Paul had to agree not to sue him. We don’t know how many people took the payout, but we know of at least one who didn’t: Don Holland, who teamed up with Houston-based attorney Tom Kherkher (aka AttorneyTom on YouTube) and filed this class-action suit against Paul in 2023.
Paul, unsurprisingly, is pleased with the results. He covered the dismissal in a 17-minute video that’s also about his recent wedding to Danish model Nina Agdal.
“This is pretty significant for me just because I’ve been on this pursuit to try to clear my name and unwind years of this fake scammer reputational damage narrative that got spun up,” he said (perhaps nodding to his ongoing antagonism with Coffeezilla, the “internet detective” whose deep dive investigation of CryptoZoo got him slapped with a lawsuit of his own from Paul).
Paul also pointed out that the judge noted his project collaborators and co-defendants, Eduardo Ibanez and Jake Greenbaum, “sold large amounts of [CryptoZoo] for an immediate and large profit.”
“So I didn’t,” he said. “And I’ve said that. I never sold the token. I never made a dollar from this project. I wanted to make the best game ever. It failed. But there’s a huge difference between failure and fraud. Business ventures fail all the time, but to imply it’s a scam, to imply deception, is just so objectively false. And I’m so happy that the court now says it.”
He got in a shot at Holland fellow plaintiffs, too: “For anyone who bought the eggs to play the CryptoZoo game, don’t forget I offered to buy all of them back. […] So the people who did not participate, who thought they had a better chance at suing me in the class-action, now lost, because you believed a headline and you bought into this fake narrative that I’m a scammer. A hundred and forty-plus people that were trying to sue me in the class-action lost.”
We’re not legal experts, but we’re curious what kind of precedent this judgment sets. How far can people go in “puffery” before they hit a danger zone? Can other failed projects claim “puffery” instead of false advertising and failure to deliver?
Whatever the case, Paul is scot-free. Now all he has to worry about is the Ontario Securities Commission accusing Liquid MarketPlace, the fractional ownership collectibles site he co-founded in 2021, of being “multi-layered fraud.”
