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Business 17 August 2023

Ripple Labs opposes SEC appeal request

Lawyers for Ripple Labs filed a letter with the federal judge overseeing its lawsuit against the U.S. SEC, opposing the regulator's expected interlocutory appeal of a July 13 ruling in the case.

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Business 16 August 2023

This amicus brief for Coinbase is so wrong

In this article, ZeMing Gao looks into the amicus brief for Coinbase, why speculation drives regulators to enact securities laws, and how an asset is classified as a security.

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Business 11 August 2023

SEC to appeal XRP ruling in Ripple case

The U.S. securities regulator will file an "interlocutory appeal" of a ruling in its case against Ripple Labs related to the programmatic sales of XRP.

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Editorial 11 August 2023

The XRP judge got the securities law wrong

In the summary judgment, the judge in the Ripple case said that selling XRP tokens to institutional buyers constituted a sale of unregistered securities, but selling XRP tokens to the public did not.