last week, a U.S. District Judge provided Ripple Labs with a decisive victory in its years-long court battle against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC); the decision being that XRP was not considered a security likewise with digital asset exchanges. This differentiated from indictations inclined to centralized infrastructure, wherein the token had illustriously met the Howey test. Nonetheless, Ripple CE0 Brad Garlinghouse, speaking colloquially to Bloomberg, iterated, “as a matter of law right now, XRP is not a security,” developing a rationale on nonefficacious securities/compenation schemes in correlation to the XRP universe and cultivating expectations that pushed against approaching case appeals.
John Reed Stark, writing trhough a LinkedIn blog, evinced criticism citing suspiciously ambiguous elements of the ruling and declaring stress on less experienced investors, the latter of which incorporating undue negligence with respec to legal requirements. Featuring the subjective understanding of TuongVy Le- chief counsel at SEC/ head of policy at Bain Capital Crypto, SEC must amidst littler, motified bounds to obtain preliminary, judicial approvals of events subserviant to interlocutory appeal. Withdrawing prior quote marks, Le implies a lack of expected strives toward an aggregate appeal.
