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自 2023 年初以来,Ripple 在与美国证券交易委员会 ( SEC ) 的法庭诉讼中取得了巨大进展,美国证券交易委员会 (SEC) 指控这家区块链公司非法出售 XRP 代币,这是一种
被监管机构视为证券的加密
货币。
具体来说, 在新年之际 ,XRP 社区对诉讼的未来持观望态度,律师约翰·迪顿 (John Deaton) 分享的一项民意调查显示,59.2% 的人相信会达成和解,而 40.8% 的人预计在法院 批准动议 后会做出裁决。加密货币 投资 公司 Paradigm 加入此案。
激烈的争议标志着2023年的开始
不久之后, 监管机构 提出动议,阻止 Ripple 的专家证词, 认为 专家不可靠且缺乏正确的背景。 反过来,Ripple 提交了一份经过修改的动议,要求删除 SEC 专家证词以及公开案卷中随附的证物。
随着时间的推移,案件的 焦点 再次转向备受争议的 辛曼演讲文件的 启封,记者罗斯林·莱顿提出了一份修改后的动议,请求法院查阅该演讲,美国政府监管机构
也就是说,Ripple 的另一项 重大胜利 是托雷斯法官驳回了 SEC 封存有争议的 Hinman 文件的动议,这些文件涉及前 SEC 部门主管的演讲,他在演讲中表示比特币和以太坊不是证券。
As for the documents themselves, the public saw them on June 13, after which itbecame clearthat he had said that a crypto was not a security when it becomes “sufficiently decentralized,” despite senior SEC officials repeatedly warning him about the possibility of further confusing thecrypto market.
Finally, onJuly 13, Ripple secured a legal triumph with Judge Torres’s summary ruling in which she ruled that the retail sales of XRP did not constitute securities sales. However, she did the courtdid findthat past directXRP salesto institutional clients do, in fact, constitute aninvestmentcontract.
As 2024 approaches, the only thing left for the case is the final settlement in which the presiding judge will decide how much money the blockchain company will have to pay in damages for the part of the court decision that referred to the institutional XRP sales.
As it happens, Judge Torressaidin her pretrial scheduling order that the Court would seek to schedule a jury trial for the case in the second quarter of 2024, ordering both parties to submit blackout dates for trial by August 23, which would suggest late summer of 2024 as the period for the final settlement.
What followed across August and September wereback-and-forth motionsregardingthe SEC’searly appealto Judge Torres’s July ruling, culminating with herrejectionof the said interlocutory appeal despite the regulator’s incessantattemptsat adding more arguments for it.
Finally, in late October, the SECagreed to dismiss the civil allegationsagainst the company’s CEO, Brad Garlinghouse, and co-founder Chris Larsen, in the third and final capitulation for the securities watchdog in its three-year crusade against Ripple.
Meanwhile, XRP was at press time trading at the price of $0.63, down 1.01% on the day but growing its value by 1.6% in the last week and by 3.17% across the previous month while gaining as much as 83.29% over the year that is almost over, as per data on December 29.