Cryptocurrency investors withdraw their lawsuit against the billionaire Elon Musk for fraud and insider trading, and efforts to sanction Musk’s lawyers for allegedly interfering with their appeal, including demanding payment of their exorbitant legal fees.

Investors accused Musk of posting on X (formerly Twitter), paid influencers, made TV appearances, and other “publicity gimmicks” to promote the dogecoin cryptocurrency largely controlled by himself or the company Tesla, which he owns.

In the August 29 ruling, the court had ruled that investors were ultimately unable to prove financial fraud based solely on Musk’s tweets, including one claiming that dogecoin would be Earth’s future currency and could fly to moon by the SpaceX company. The judge also said he did not understand the market manipulation and insider trading alleged by the investors.

The investors had originally sought $258 billion in damages, although they amended their complaint four times in two years.

On Tuesday, President-elect Donald Trump tapped Musk to lead a new Department of Government Efficiency, whose acronym echoes his name dogecoin.