First Mover: XRP Plunges 20% as Traders Assess SEC’s Ripple Suit
The SEC's suit against Ripple has triggered a steep sell-off in price for the payments token XRP. Meanwhile, prices for Chainlink's token have increased sevenfold this year, most among CoinDesk 20.
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Ripple’s lawyers will dig through the SEC's internal discussion on crypto for mention of XRP. Ripple Labs has been granted access to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission documents “expressing the agency’s interpretation or views” on the subject of crypto assets.According to Law360, U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn granted the defendants’ motion “in large part,” determining that SEC minutes or memos concerning crypto are likely discoverable. Netburn asserted staff-to-staff email communications do not need to be produced.Netburn also allowed for the SEC and Ripple to raise disputes....
The announcement came hours after Coinbase and OKCoin took similar actions.
Ripple’s XRP has lost almost 40% of its value after the token price dropped from $0.51 on December 21 to $0.31 at the time of writing. The token’s plunge appears to be the result of legal proceedings initiated against Ripple by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). At the time of writing, the fourth-ranked crypto token had seen traded volumes of $4.85 billion recorded in 24 hours. $1.3 Billion Lawsuit As data on markets.Bitcoin.com suggests, the sell-off of the XRP token appears to have been sparked by Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse’s warning that the SEC was....
Ripple Labs was able to gain a victory against the SEC in its ongoing securities fraud case. The judge on the case denied the SEC’s motion to review certain documents that may not be material to the prosecution. Ripple Labs has struck a blow against the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) case after the presiding judge made a ruling that one Ripple community lawyer calls “a very big win for Ripple.”The SEC filed suit in 2020 against Ripple and executives Brad Garlinghouse and Christian Larsen for selling unregistered securities.Presiding Judge Sarah Netburn denied the SEC’s request....
In a Friday filing, Ripple Labs pushed back against the SEC’s allegations.