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Ripple releases 1 billion XRP despite SEC’s lawsuit

Ajibola Akamo by Ajibola Akamo
July 5, 2021
in Cryptos, Markets, Spotlight
Ripple scores another win against the United States SEC
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One billion XRP tokens have been withdrawn by the Ripple DLT from its escrow account on July 1. These releases of massive XRP amounts have been programmed to take place on the first day of each month. This withdrawal comes amidst Ripple’s legal battle against the U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

What you should know

  • The SEC has been in a legal battle with Ripple and two of its executives over a case of conducting a $1.3 billion unregistered securities offering.
  • The two executives in question are Ripple’s CEO, Bradley Garlinghouse and Ripple’s co-founder and executive chairman of its board, Christian Larsen.
  • Yesterday, the blockchain giant unlocked another billion of the cryptocurrencies affiliated with it. That is equal to over $704 million in fiat.
  • Ripple releases 1,000,000,000 XRP in two transfers of 500 million each first of every month.
  • Partnership agreements between Ripple and banks, payment companies and other institutions (over 350 of them) often require them to utilize Ripple’s payment network RippleNet and the XRP token as well.
  • In the past, many in the cryptocurrency community blamed Ripple for preventing the XRP price from rising by these regular releases of 1 billion XRP. A petition on the change.org portal was launched to demand that Ripple stopped throwing large amounts of XRP into the market.

READ: Ripple seeks documents from offshore exchanges to aid case against SEC

What this means

Even with the current lawsuit the company is facing, the company continues to run its regular day to day activities and meets up with its objectives and obligations. Ripple has been winning its case against the SEC so far. In its latest win, the judge denied the SEC access to Ripple’s legal advice.

In the meantime, the 7th largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization has not recovered from the fall below the $1 level and is exchanging hands at $0.63, down 4.14% as of the time of this writing.

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Tags: Bradley GarlinghouseChristian LarsenRippleU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Comments 8

  1. Ronald St. Range says:
    July 3, 2021 at 7:21 am

    My God, what a heaping mound of hot trash fud this article is. Simply pathetic effort.

    Reply
    • Brents says:
      July 3, 2021 at 2:59 pm

      Is there a good source of crypto and xrp news you can recommend?

      Reply
    • Nadnerb217 says:
      July 5, 2021 at 3:25 am

      You make it sound like Ripple chose to release these funds. They’re done on a schedule, regardless of how ripple feels.

      Reply
  2. Alister says:
    July 3, 2021 at 12:53 pm

    I thought the XRP community had voted to burn these escrow account coins.

    Reply
    • Rex Ejike Ezaka says:
      July 3, 2021 at 5:14 pm

      I guess you are already holding enough

      Reply
    • Nadnerb217 says:
      July 5, 2021 at 3:26 am

      No, it was mentioned as a hypothetical. The question was “if the XRP community decided to burn these funds what could ripple do?” and the answer was “nothing”. The XRP validators would never opt to burn these though.

      Reply
  3. Abdulaziz says:
    July 5, 2021 at 4:08 am

    Hill to XRP and there strategies
    If every month they will release 1 billion token when the hill the price will able to rise up??

    Reply
  4. S James says:
    July 5, 2021 at 12:41 pm

    What a stupid article. Ripple doesn’t dump massive amounts of XRP on the market. They’ve been consistently returning most of it to Escrow after each release. Even if they didn’t, it would be counter-intuitive for Ripple to dump on the market. Only idiots who don’t understand what XRP and the XRP Ledger are for would complain about the price and have no understanding of it’s future and true value.

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