According to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Ripple labs has violated the federal securities law by selling the cryptocurrency called XRP to retail consumers. As per the lawsuit which was filed, Ripple has managed to raise nearly 1.3 billion in the short span of time to retain investors using the XRP sale which was -16.52% on the whole current basis. The CEO of Ripple Brad Garlinghouse has even declared on Monday that SEC had even stated his company for impending the lawsuit. It has also published the firm’s payment wells responded. It is a document that states the reason to SEC on how certain activities have not violated U.S. securities laws.

The Fintech firm from San Fransisco has managed to maintain the Cryptocurrency called XRP for quite some time separated from Ripple the company. The cryptocurrency was also considered as the ‘ripple’ in early 2018 and also has shared the logo till the last year. Of course, the impact could be quite a wide that would range from many exchanges list XRP in the US while only one deciding to delist the cryptocurrency ahead of the lawsuit. If the SEC continues to prevail, the platform will also list the crypto that has registered as the security exchanges.

The ckapint highlights the name of CEO Brad Garlinghouse along with Chairman Chris Larsen with Ripple labs who were the defendants, stating the validation of sections 5a and 5C of the securities act of 1933 by not registering the XRP as the security or looking forward to an expansion. Over quite some time, such unregistered offering of the security has led ripple to increase at least $1.38 billion with XRP sale without giving any specific managerial or financial information that was actually provided in the statements registers and even the filings that were subsequently made on a periodic and current basis

Shivangi Mujumdar

CBW - External Analyst

INDIA