Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple, speaks at the Milken Institute Global Conference 2022 in Beverly Hills, California, USA, May 4, 2022.
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It seems that the Crusade of the Securities and Exchange Commission for years against the crypt industry.
The final chapter closed on Wednesday, when Ripple announced that the Sec had officially abandoned its four -year demand against the company. Demand, filed on the last day of Jay Clayton as President of the Sec, accused Ripple of Collect $ 1.3 billion through the sale of your XRP testimony without registering it as a security.
Crypt companies and exchanges CoinbaseKraken, RobinhoodBinance and OpenSea saw that the demands or investigations previously fell, resolved or put on hold. Ripple is doing a victory lap.
« Ripple is alone as the company that fought and gained essential legal issues, launching a significant key to the SEC plans to destroy Crypto in the United States through the application, » CNBC told the legal manager of Riple Stuart Alderoty in a statement by email. « The Sec has abandoned its appeal in our case. In proper irony, Ripple was the first important case they brought and now it will be the last one to move away. »
XRP was created in 2012 as one of the first non -bitcoin cryptocurrencies. It was started by the founders of the Riple company and became the native currency of the platform. Like Bitcoin, XRP can be purchased and sold by retail investors. XRP Jumped approximately 11% after Wednesday announcement.
Ripple spent $ 150 million fighting the Government on a legal bruise with the former Second President Gary Gensler, Crypto’s approach was widely regarded as hostile. In July 2023A federal judge ruled that XRP is “Not necessarily a safety on your face” Replaced the founding of the Case of La Sec.
The victory was not just a turning point for Ripple. Pointed to the crypt industry that the tide turned around and created impetus for a movement that helped return President Donald TrumpAn old crypt critic, in the White House. One year after Judge’s ruling, Trump, as a Republican candidate, he issued a key note At the Bitcoin Annual Conference and announced that it was « raising my plan to ensure that the United States will be the crypt capital of the planet and the overpower of the world’s bitcoin ».
Ripple and his Crypt companions were main collaborators In Trump’s campaign. The President has spent his first two months in the post paying them.
New leadership
On Friday, the Sec welcomed her first big crypto roundSign a new regulation approach through participation, rather than the application. Hester Peirce, who is directing the effort, is at the forefront of the recent Crypt Working Group of the Regulator.
Peirce’s message to industry is that dry is no longer an adversary, but tries to give Crypto a clear and legal framework.
In a reversal of important policies, the dry termination Personnel Accounting Bulletin 121: A controversial rule that required banks to treat cryptographic assets as liabilities in their balance sheets. Introduced in 2022 and defended Gensler, the rule was widely considered as a large barrier to Bitcoin’s institutional adoption and other digital assets.
« Goodbye, bye saber 121! It wasn’t fun, » Peirce wrote in an AX post After the change was announced in January.
At the Davos World Economic Forum, Switzerland that month, the CEOs Clegiate of Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanleyand Bank of America stated that the thawing in Washington could lead to renewed Crypt Commitment.
United States President Donald Trump sits alongside Crypt David Sacks at the Crypt Summit of the White House in Washington White House, DC, USA, March 7, 2025.
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And in the White House, David Sacks, the Ia of Trump and Crypt Tsar, stood next to the President as he signed a executive order On digital assets. Sacks had recently attended the Crypt Ball As part of the inauguration, where he stated, « the war against the crypt is over. »
Coinbase’s Demand was rejected In February. Then came Kraken. The dry throw Since his Wells Notice against Robinhood Crypt Division. Binance research is on grip.
Ripple’s legal team argued that the SEC’s strategy was not a matter of defending the law, but to use it as a forceful instrument. The regulator sent appointments to foreign regulators working with Ripple, demanded tobs of documents from commercial partners and even claim CEO Brad Garlinghouse and co -founder Chris Larsen personally. These positions have also been abandoned.
« While this chapter is closed, the struggle for clear, fair and transparent crypt regulation continues, » Aderoty told CNBC. « Ripple will continue to lead this struggle. »
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