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    Home » Crypto News » XRP Price Crashes as SEC Prepares to Sue Ripple

    XRP Price Crashes as SEC Prepares to Sue Ripple

    Author: Felix Mollen

    Last Updated Feb 24, 2023 @ 22:27

    The time has come. The SEC could be about to sue Ripple over the XRP cryptocurrency, But its CEO is “ready to fight and win.” Nevertheless, XPR’s price has lost 17% on the news.

    The moment has come. Apparently, the SEC is ready to sue Ripple for issuing XRP as a non-registered security.

    After several years of uncertainty, it seems that U.S. regulators would be willing to answer once and for all the most crucial question that any member of the XRP Army has ever asked. Is XRP a security?

    According to Fortune, the American company received a notice on Monday that it would be sued by the SEC. Brad Garlinghouse, Ripple’s CEO, did not deny the news and, in fact, spoke out on his Twitter account, claiming that the move undermined American innovation.

    What’s Going on With Ripple, XRP and the SEC

    The SEC has already ruled on Bitcoin and Ethereum, assuring that neither are securities. This gives some freedom to the exchanges and users to operate with them.

    However, speculation about whether or not XRP passes the famous Howey Test has always been up for grabs. Many experts claim that XRP has all the features of a security, while others argue that it doesn’t. But in the absence of a clear stance from the SEC, the debate had no clear winner.

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    The Howey Test
    They Key Aspects of the Howey Test. Image: Inwara

    Now, the alarms are sounding. If XRP is indeed classified as a security, Ripple would have to pay a hefty fine for the offense committed —just as what happened with the KIN case. Likewise, the token would probably be delisted from many major exchanges that would not be authorized to accept it, Ripple would be subject to stricter control, and it’s interesting to see what would happen to the price of XRP.

    Unlike Bitcoin and Ethereum, which were issued without a central entity to benefit from it, Ripple’s history with XRP is very different. In very general terms, the developers of XRP issued the tokens, founded a company (Ripple), and then self-gifted a large number of tokens, assigning about 80% of the supply to the company they created and managed.

    This has resulted in many analysts seeing XRP as an expression of Ripple’s value in the same way that a stock or other security would be.

    Ripple Is In Combat Mode

    Brad Garlinghouse has already announced that he is putting on the boxing gloves: “Make no mistake, we are ready to fight and win,” he said on his Twitter account, “this battle is just beginning.”

    Ripple’s CEO is already preparing for the upcoming legal battle. In a document posted on Ripple’s official blog, the company made several arguments that contradict the SEC’s claims. They attack various aspects, from the technical to the geopolitical, asserting that Bitcoin and Ethereum were controlled by China —the United States’ political rival.

    Policy reasons counsel against finding XRP to be an investment contract.
    A. Innovation in the cryptocurrency industry will be fully ceded to China. The Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains are highly susceptible to Chinese control because both are subject to simple majority rule, whereas the XRPL prevents comparable centralization

    The arguments generated diverse reactions. On the one hand, Ripple’s supporters —such as the president of SBI Holdings, Yoshitaka Kitao— argued that XRP was obviously not a security. Mr. Yoshitaka added that other regulators — like Japan’s FSA— have already declared XRP not a security.

    But on the other hand, critics like Vitalik Buterin scoffed at Ripple’s desperation and the lack of seriousness of some arguments.

    Looks like the Ripple/XRP team is sinking to new levels of strangeness. They’re claiming that their shitcoin should not be called a security for *public policy reasons*, namely because Bitcoin and Ethereum are “Chinese-controlled”. 😂😂https://t.co/ts02JqrTrB pic.twitter.com/mKwEzGIetk

    — vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) December 22, 2020

    The price of XRP did not react very well to the news. In the last 24 hours, it dropped 17.2%, one of the worst crashes in the Top 100 of the largest cryptocurrencies by market cap.

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    XRP/USD. Source: TradingView

    The article was first published on: Dec 22, 2020

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    Felix got into Bitcoin back in 2014, but his interest quickly expanded to everything blockchain-related. He's particularly excited about real-world applications of blockchain technology. Having worked as a professional content writer for three years before that, Felix transitioned to working on blockchain-centered projects and hasn't looked back ever since.

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