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Most cryptocurrencycryptocurrency investors and traders have had plenty of reason to celebrate throughout December and the new year. But the XRP Army is still looking its wound after the US Securities and Exchange Commission filed suit against crypto payments firm Ripple, alleging that XRP is, in fact, a security and that the company’s sales of the asset were illegal.
Since the lawsuit was filed two weeks ago, the price of XRP has dropped sharply—just when the cryptocrypto asset appeared poised to recover from its status as “worst-performing cryptocurrency” in the top 10 for two years running.
While most major crypto exchanges, such as Coinbase and Binance.US, have already moved to either delist or halt trading for the token, there’s at least one that is bucking the trend. Uphold, an “anything to anything” exchange that’s done about $8 billion in cumulative trading volume (according to its own figures), will not take any action to change its course on XRP until there’s a definitive ruling against it.
In a statement today, the company announced that it would continue to support XRP until a final judgment declares the token a security.
"We trust that other Exchanges will adopt a similar stance rather than rushing to judgement ahead of the Court's decision," Uphold said, perhaps taking a shot at its competitors that have preemptively taken action to presumably avoid regulatory scrutiny themselves.
Uphold further criticized the SEC's action, suggesting that the consequences of its lawsuit could be very harmful to crypto investors: "An important part of the SEC's remit is the protection of consumers. It is hard to see how a judgment sending XRP to zero and inflicting billions of dollars of losses on retail investors would square with that remit."
Uphold’s CEO, JP Thieriot, had previously expressed a similar view on Twitter last week. Besides stating that this firm would not delist XRP, Thieriot also cautioned against the rush to judgement on XRP, and the potential effects that classifying it an illegal security would have on the market as a whole.
(1/8) Uphold hopes that due process resolution to the SEC/Ripple dispute can both set the goalposts for token offerings going forward, as well as clear the fogbank of uncertainty that now presumably settles over the Stellars and Filecoins of the world, if not ETH itself.
— JP Thieriot (@JpThieriot) December 30, 2020
"What if punishing the actions of a couple of parties not only directly harms XRP holders (most of whom probably assumed tacit approval after seven years of inaction) but also threatens to harm participants in similar projects?” Thieriot asked in a tweet.
XRP's market cap has fallen by $16 billion, or 63%, since news of the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s lawsuit against Ripple Labs came to light on December 21. The SEC's lawsuit alleges that Ripple Labs has raised $1.3 billion in unregistered securities since 2013 by selling XRP to investors, including those in the US. Blow by crippling blow, the lawsuit collapsed the price of the coin after crypto exchanges suspended trading of the coin and crypto funds liquidated assets. Here’s how th...
Besides Uphold, there are a handful of other trading platforms that operate in the US that are taking a “wait and see” approach to XRP for the time being. BTC Markets, for example, has said it has no plans to drop XRP at the moment, despite the SEC lawsuit. And Revolut, while cautioning its users that XRP “could drop to zero,” isn’t halting trading yet either, according to the Irish Times.
Two long-dormant Bitcoin whales moved 3,422 BTC—worth roughly $324.2 million—early Tuesday morning. Both wallets had been inactive since 2014, when Bitcoin traded at well under $1,000, and the two transfers represent some of the largest movements by dormant Bitcoin whales observed in several years. The identity the wallet owners and the reason for the move are unknown at the time of writing. It is also unknown if the wallets were owned by the same person or if they are in any way connected. Acco...
Haliey Welch, who catapulted to internet fame after a street interview in which she detailed an oral sex technique, has apologized for her role in the Hawk Tuah meme coin scandal. She added that her silence since the incident was part of a “much-needed” mental health break. This comes after Welch promoted a Solana meme coin called Hawk Tuah (HAWK), in reference to her viral interview, that quickly imploded after its launch. Within 15 minutes, the token was created, soared to a $490 million marke...
Bitcoin enthusiast Charlie Shrem just announced the launch of 21million.com, a Bitcoin faucet designed to distribute small amounts of the crypto to users who complete simple CAPTCHA tasks. The concept isn't new. Back in 2010, early Bitcoin developer Gavin Andresen created the original Bitcoin faucet, which handed out five whole bitcoins at a time to promote adoption. That pioneering giveaway ultimately distributed 19,700 BTC, worth around $1.86 billion at current prices. "Working on getting the...
