Creator of third-largest cryptocurrency, XRP, sued over alleged $1.4 billion unregistered offering.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed a civil lawsuit against cryptocurrency firm Ripple Labs Inc. and two of its executives, alleging they illegally raised nearly $1.4 billion in an unregistered offering of its digital asset XRP. Ripple’s XRP is the third-largest cryptocurrency by market cap after Bitcoin and Ethereum.
According to the SEC’s complaint, Ripple co-founder and former CEO Christian Larsen, and current CEO Bradley Garlinghouse raised capital to finance the company’s business through the sale of XRP digital assets in an unregistered securities offering to investors.
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The agency accused them of misleading investors in XRP, the world s third-largest cryptocurrency
December 22, 2020
Ripple Labs Inc. and its top executives were accused by the Securities and Exchange Commission of misleading investors in XRP, the world’s third-largest cryptocurrency, by selling more than $1 billion of the virtual tokens without registering with the agency.
Ripple co-founder Christian Larsen and Chief Executive Bradley Garlinghouse “created an information vacuum” that allowed them to sell XRP into a market that only had information they chose to share, the SEC said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday in New York. The two men ignored legal advice that the cryptocurrency could be considered an investment contract and therefore was a security, the agency said.
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Ripple s XRP token has fallen more than 30% after the SEC filed a lawsuit against the cryptocurrency firm
Ripple s XRP token has fallen more than 30% after the SEC filed a lawsuit against the cryptocurrency firm
Amanda CooperDec 23, 2020, 18:50 IST
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Ripple s
XRP cryptocurrency tumbled by as much 32% on Wednesday, after the US regulator filed a lawsuit against the company s executives over sales of the token.
XRP lost as much as a third in value after the US regulator charged cryptocurrency firm
Ripple over how it has sold the digital token.
The token fell to its lowest since November 20, effectively wiping out all of last month s 177% gain.