Grayscale Investments Begins Dissolution of XRP Trust Citing Ripple SEC Suit
Cash proceeds from the Trust’s liquidated XRP will be distributed to Trust shareholders, Grayscale said.
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Grayscale Investments is shutting down its Grayscale XRP Trust and liquidating its XRP holdings in order to distribute cash proceeds to the trust’s shareholders. The firm cited difficulty in converting XRP into U.S. dollars following the lawsuit filed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against Ripple. Grayscale Axes XRP Trust Grayscale Investments announced Wednesday that it is commencing the “dissolution of Grayscale XRP Trust.” The company detailed that on Dec. 22, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) decided “to file a federal court....
Grayscale announced it ditched XRP on Dec. 31. Additionally, the firm's XRP Trust stopped accepting new subscriptions on Dec. 23.
Grayscale is dissolving its XRP Trust and will distribute cash to investors after liquidating all XRP held by the trust. Institutional crypto-fund manager Grayscale Investments has begun the dissolution of its XRP Trust in response to the Security and Exchange Commission’s December 2020 lawsuit alleging the XRP token is a security under U.S. law.According to an announcement published Wednesday, Grayscale decided to dissolve the trust in response to the spate of XRP delistings from major crypto-asset exchanges after the SEC’s complaint was filed. Grayscale concluded: “It is likely to be....
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