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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.

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Business 10 August 2023

Is Bitcoin (BSV) a Security?

The memo sets the starting point for considering whether Bitcoin is a security: it highlights a speech given by SEC Chairman Jay Clayton in 2018 where he said that Bitcoin does not qualify as a security because it functions as a replacement for currency.

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Business 10 August 2023

The question of ‘offering’ in the securities law

The Howey test is a standard method to determine whether an asset is a security or not, but one must also look deeper into the entire history of a token to identify distinctive "offerings."