Communi3 NFT Lawsuit: Orea v. Opera Event, Inc.
Burwick Law files Communi3 class action against Opera Event, Inc. and its founders over alleged NFT misrepresentations and the never-launched $SCI token.
On April 29, 2026, a class action complaint was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, captioned Orea v. Opera Event, Inc., on behalf of all persons who purchased Communi3, Rifters, or related digital assets on the Solana blockchain. The complaint names six defendants: Opera Event, Inc., doing business as Communi3; Community First Games; and individual founders Brandon Byrne, Andrew Ringlein, Erik Bryant, Eddie Tsaio, and Matt Espinoza.
According to the complaint, Defendants launched their first NFT collection in or around March 2022, publicly describing Communi3 as a B2B Web3 enterprise platform connecting brands with NFT communities. Over the following months, Defendants issued a series of Solana-based NFT collections: Communi3: Laboratories, priced at approximately $100,000 each; Communi3: Mad Scientists, comprising 5,001 NFTs sold at 2 SOL each; Adorable Assistants; and Rifters: Exiles, comprising 7,037 NFTs sold at 10 SOL each. Defendants also promoted a forthcoming cryptocurrency token called $SCI, publicly projecting a fully diluted market capitalization of $250 million to $500 million, individual token prices of $0.25 to $0.50, and passive income of $30 to $60 per day for holders of upgraded Mad Scientist NFTs. Defendants represented that Communi3 was a thriving, revenue-generating enterprise with blue-chip clients including The Sandbox, Yield Guild Games, and Magic Eden.
The complaint alleges that the $SCI token was never launched, no airdrop was ever distributed, and the represented client relationships and revenue streams did not exist as described. According to the complaint, Defendants serially broke promised launch deadlines spanning Q3 2022, December 2022, January 2023, and Q1 2023, allowed platform activity and community communications to cease in early 2023, and ultimately abandoned the project entirely — leaving purchasers holding digital assets that had declined to near worthlessness. The complaint further alleges that Defendants concealed that the ecosystem depended entirely on continuous inflows of new capital from new participants, and that Defendants raised at least $6.5 million to $8 million in direct NFT mint proceeds, plus additional secondary-market royalties and platform fees, without delivering the utilities, token launch, or airdrop they had represented.
The complaint asserts claims for violations of California's Unfair Competition Law under Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code §§ 17200 et seq., California's False Advertising Law under Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code §§ 17500 et seq., and unjust enrichment, and seeks restitution, disgorgement, injunctive relief, attorneys' fees and costs, and class certification on behalf of all purchasers of Communi3, Rifters, and related digital assets during the class period.
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