The brother of a former Coinbase Global Inc. employee was sentenced in a New York federal court Tuesday to 10 months in prison for his role in what prosecutors called the first cryptocurrency insider-trading scheme.

Nikhil Wahi, 27 years old, pleaded guilty last year to one count of conspiring to commit wire fraud, admitting to profiting from confidential information that federal prosecutors say his brother obtained about assets to be listed on the crypto exchange. Mr. Wahi netted nearly $900,000 in proceeds by using the information to trade on digital tokens, according to prosecutors in the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office.

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