SEC wants to end cryptocurrencies, defense lawyer says

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is attempting to put an end to cryptocurrencies such as Ripple in the United States, according to James K. Filan, a defense lawyer. However, this could hav...

Filing In LBRY Case Shows SEC Wants To Kill Crypto & Ripple

On November 7, 2022, the district court in New Hampshire granted summary judgment in favor of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against the blockchain payment network LBRY. This was th...

Ripple’s (XRP) Ongoing Lawsuit Could End in a Loss for the SEC, Orbeon Protocol (ORBN) Presale Reaches New Heights

Place/Date: – December 19th, 2022 at 2:15 pm UTC · 3 min read Source: Orbeon Protocol Although many cryptocurrency investors thought the ongoing Ripple (XRP) lawsuit would be over by the 15h of ...

Ripple v. SEC court case update as of December 20, 2022

With the cryptocurrency sector continuing to battle the problems caused by the widely publicized FTX collapse, the community has also been closely following the ongoing case between Ripple and the Uni...

Judge Completely Grants Ripple Recent Request But Denies SEC Motion In Part

– Advertisement – Judge Torres has issued an order on the parties’ requests to seal certain documents in connection with the expert challenges. Judge Analisa Torres, the presiding Judge of...

Judge Grants Ripple, MoneyGram’s Motion; Partially Holds SEC

Analisa Torres, District Judge issued an order over the Daubert Motions in the XRP lawsuit. The decree is regarding the parties’ Motion to seal documents in connection with the Expert Challenges. Judg...

Grayscale to Refund 20% of Investor’s Capital if SEC Denies Its ETF Bid

While little is known about its fight with the SEC, Grayscale is already preparing for future moves in case it loses the battle. Grayscale Investments, one of the biggest asset management firms in the...

Ripple Vs SEC: Atty. Nicole Tatz Withdraws As Counsel For Ripple! How Will This Impact The Proceedings?

Over the last several days, the value of Ripple (XRP), which is the seventh-largest cryptocurrency in the world, has been trending downward. At the time of this writing, one unit is worth $0.3428, whi...

gm: SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce Critiques SEC’s Approach to Crypto

gm: SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce Critiques SEC’s Approach to Crypto SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce has been an outspoken advocate for crypto and a candid critic of her own agency’s approach to...

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce Outlines Problems With the SEC’s Howey Test

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce says the so-called Howey test, used by the Securities and Exchange Commission to determine whether a digital asset should be classified as a security, has some limitatio...

Former SEC Official Says Binance’s Finances Are Even More Opaque Than Those of FTX

Alex Dovbnya Recent report published by Reuters suggests that Binance’s finances are ‘black box’ John Reed Stark, former chief of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s ...

XRP Army Eager To Receive Verdict On Ripple vs. SEC Lawsuit As Attorney Sets Tentative Settlement Date ⋆ ZyCrypto

Advertisement &nbsp &nbsp Ripple’s XRP price has been consolidating as investors await a court decision in the case with the SEC. Lawyer John Deaton expects the lawsuit’s outc...

David Gokhshtein Says that Ripple Vs SEC Lawsuit Decision is Just 2-Months Away!

David Gokhshtein, the founder of Gokhshtein Media, tweeted yesterday that the legal decision in the Ripple vs SEC case may be announced in two months, or at the start of 2023. It’s been about 24 month...

Grayscale CEO Will Consider Massive Share Buyback if SEC Lawsuit Fails

Grayscale may consider a 20% tender offer on GBTC shares if its bid to convert into a Bitcoin spot ETF ultimately fails, said CEO Michael Sonnenshein to investors on Monday. In an interview on the sam...

Ban Crypto? Why Senate Banking Chief Suggests SEC And CFTC Should Do So

Crypto is at the crosshair of a U.S. lawmaker – and it’s not surprising. Sen. Sherrod Brown, Chairman of United States Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, suggested on December 18 that fede...

GBTC Not Interested in Redemptions, but Considering Other Options

Though Grayscale remains committed to trying to convert its Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) to an ETF, the firm’s CEO said the firm could explore other options to return a portion of GBTC’s capital to shareholde...

Ripple And LBRY Litigation Vs. SEC Share Key Commonality

The legal battle between Ripple and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is in the home stretch. Both parties had filed their more than 60-page reply briefs for summary judgment on Nov. 3...

Grayscale Will Explore Returning 20% of Investor Capital if SEC Refuses Spot Bitcoin ETF: Report

Grayscale Investments is exploring options to return a portion of capital of its flagship Grayscale Bitcoin (GBTC) product if the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) refuses to approve its spot b...

Howey Test Has Limits as per SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce

42 mins ago | 2 mins read Tradingview SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce has said that the test has limits. The standard is based on a 1946 Supreme Court ruling. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SE...

Ripple CEO’s attorney to resign as counsel on XRP lawsuit against SEC

Nicole Tatz, an attorney for Ripple Labs Inc. Chief Executive Officer Bradley Garlinghouse, has applied to withdraw as the co-defendant’s counsel in his ongoing lawsuit against the U.S. Securities and...

Whales Shuffle 412M XRP In Absence of Settlement in Ripple vs. SEC Lawsuit

– Advertisement – Cryptocurrency whales are still showing enormous interest in XRP. Cryptocurrency whale tracking service Whale Alert continues to share updates about large XRP movements m...

SEC Chairman Says Important to Regulate Crypto Issuers and Intermediaries – Regulation Bitcoin News

The chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Gary Gensler, has stressed the importance of bringing “intermediaries and issuers of crypto securities” into compliance. In addition,...

Crypto can still improve financial system says ex SEC chair

Even amidst the current chaos and collapses that are permeating the cryptocurrency industry, Jay Clayton, former chair of the SEC, says that crypto can still contribute to improvements in traditional ...

SEC was “asleep at the wheel” about FTX

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was “asleep at the wheel” regarding how FTX Group and its subsidiaries met financial and corporate control requirements, Representative Pete Se...

SEC To File Reconsideration Of Judgement

XRP Lawsuit News: The ruling in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission vs Ripple lawsuit is awaited and is witnessing different kinds of speculative outcomes. However, both parties have filed the...

Amicus Curiae In Ripple (XRP) Vs. SEC Case Files New Request

The court battle between Ripple and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rages on. In December 2020, the SEC sued Ripple and its current and former chief executives. The regulator alleged that ...

Ripple Lawyer Urges FTX Venture Investors To Challenge SEC

Since the arrest of Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) by the Bahamian Authority, US Watchdogs are pushing very hard to hold him liable for fraud and other conspiracies. However, the US SEC mentions that the SBF...

Did Investor Interest In Financial Reporting Peak With Enron?

Near zero interest rates for more than a decade, passive indexing, the rise of machine learning and the absence of an accounting accident since Enron are the key reasons for declining investor interes...

XRP Declines by 7% as Updates on Ripple v SEC Stall

– Advertisement – The lack of essential updates on the Ripple v SEC lawsuit has subjected XRP to the whims of the broader markets. XRP, Ripple’s native token, has been subjected to the osc...

SEC Pulls The Trigger at Crypto Exchange FTX’s SBF

SBF was arrested on December 12 in the Bahamas. The broke man has been charged with dozens of charges by authorities. “White Knight” Fully Washed-Out  Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO and co-founder ...

Grayscale ETF Gets Rejected by the SEC

The Securities and Exchange Commission has reaffirmed its decision to reject Grayscale’s application for a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF). The federal regulator reiterated that it believes such pr...

Whales Move 302M XRP Despite No Settlement Between Ripple and SEC

– Advertisement – Crypto whales continue to shuffle huge volumes of XRP as settlement rumors clear. While the anticipated settlement between Ripple and the SEC did not happen as rumored by...