New York Permanently Bars Celsius Founder Mashinsky in $35M Fraud Settlement

Revelation News Editorial DeskOctober 9, 2026

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New York has reached a $35 million settlement with Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky, resolving a 2023 civil fraud lawsuit. The agreement permanently bars Mashinsky from working in the cryptocurrency, securities, and commodities industries.

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The settlement concludes regulatory action against a major cryptocurrency platform founder and enforces an industry-wide ban that prevents his future involvement in digital asset markets.

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The chart totals every SEC-reported transaction by month and share count, separating informative purchases and sales from non-informative awards, vesting, exercises, tax withholding and transfers. Records without a reported price remain included. Only informative purchases and sales affect the conservative sentiment signal.

Recent SEC-reported share and derivative transactions in Celsius Holdings, Inc..

Insider activity sentiment

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3 discretionary purchases · 0 discretionary sales

Confidence: Medium

Informative buyNon-informative buyInformative sellNon-informative sell

Insiders	Activity	Description	Shares	Avg. price / share	Est. value	Trade date
DirectorKravitz Hal	Informative buy	Common Stock, $0.001 par value per shareOpen-market or private transaction (P)	12,000	$28.00	$336,000	Sep 15, 2026
DirectorDeSantis Damon	Informative buy	Common Stock, $0.001 par value per shareOpen-market or private transaction (P)	16,000	$27.95	$447,200	Sep 15, 2026
DirectorDeSantis Damon	Informative buy	Common Stock, $0.001 par value per shareOpen-market or private transaction (P)	20,000	$27.65	$553,000	Sep 14, 2026
Chief Executive OfficerFieldly John	Informative buy	Common Stock, $0.001 par value per shareOpen-market or private transaction (P)	18,000	$27.4357	$493,843	Sep 10, 2026
DirectorPrevin Fletcher F	Non-informative buy	Common Stock, $0.001 par value per shareCompany grant or award (A)	3,812	—	—	Aug 7, 2026

As filed with the SEC. Estimated value is shown only for purchases or sales with a positive reported transaction price; awards, gifts and similar activity are not assigned an assumed market value. Amendments may change the record. This is not investment advice.

Short interest

Open short positions reported twice monthly; this is not daily short-sale volume.

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Owner	Activity	Change	Shares held	Value (thousands)	Reported
Blackrock, Inc.	Buy	2,470,643 (15.494%)	18,416,043	$521,358	6/30/2026
Vanguard Group Inc	Buy	802,743 (4.648%)	18,074,995	$511,703	12/31/2025
Sachem Head Capital Management Lp	Buy	9,090,000 (New)	9,090,000	$257,338	6/30/2026
Vanguard Portfolio Management Llc	Buy	152,140 (1.725%)	8,972,227	$254,004	6/30/2026
Alliancebernstein L.P.	Sell	-11,433,521 (-57.767%)	8,359,099	$236,646	6/30/2026
Vanguard Capital Management Llc	Buy	36,079 (0.439%)	8,251,547	$233,601	6/30/2026
Morgan Stanley	Buy	4,815,902 (172.047%)	7,615,074	$215,583	6/30/2026
Fmr Llc	Buy	360,365 (5.761%)	6,615,598	$187,288	6/30/2026
Norges Bank	Buy	3,129,768 (101.671%)	6,208,110	$175,752	6/30/2026
Westfield Capital Management Co Lp	Buy	1,555,570 (41.274%)	5,324,481	$150,736	6/30/2026
State Street Corp	Buy	227,418 (4.525%)	5,253,654	$148,731	6/30/2026
Aqr Capital Management Llc	Buy	3,250,639 (1033.461%)	3,565,178	$100,930	6/30/2026

Settlement date	Short interest	Avg. daily volume	Change vs. previous report	Days to cover
Sep 30, 2026	30,961,186	6,800,754	+0.95%	4.55
Sep 15, 2026	30,669,027	7,410,314	+6.07%	4.14
Aug 31, 2026	28,913,096	9,338,363	-3.59%	3.10
Aug 14, 2026	29,990,894	16,959,230	-12.81%	1.77
Jul 31, 2026	34,398,398	7,856,387	-13.87%	4.38
Jul 15, 2026	39,938,164	7,373,340	+7.10%	5.42
Jun 30, 2026	37,290,385	8,690,809	-1.19%	4.29
Jun 15, 2026	37,741,141	9,824,938	—	3.84

Fiscal quarter	Reported	EPS	Consensus	Surprise
Jun 2026	Aug 6, 2026	0.36	0.42	-14.29%
Mar 2026	May 7, 2026	0.41	0.29	+41.38%
Dec 2025	Feb 26, 2026	0.26	0.19	+36.84%
Sep 2025	Nov 6, 2025	0.42	0.28	+50%

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