TL;DR
The US Securities and Exchange Commission is famous for its predominantly hostile stance towards the cryptocurrency industry, using every opportunity to undermine the sector or some of the companies involved in it. Most recently, it filed a lawsuit against the trading venue Kraken, accusing it of operating as an unregistered securities exchange, broker, dealer, and clearing agency.
The regulator alsoallegedthat the platform had offered trading services with certain cryptocurrencies without registering them first with the Commission
Those assets include Cardano (ADA), Solana (SOL), The Sandbox (SAND), Near Protocol (NEAR), Polygon (MATIC), Avalanche (AXS), Algorand (ALGO), Cosmos (ATOM), Chiliz (CHZ), COTI (COTI), The Sandbox (SAND), Decentraland (MANA), Dash (DASH), Filecoin (FIL), Flow (FLOW), Internet Computer (ICP), and OMG Network (OMG).
One crypto asset that has notfounda spot in the lengthy list is Ripple’s native token – XRP. It is worth mentioning, though, that the SEC touched upon the coin when suing the blockchain enterprise in December 2020.
Back then, the agency accused Ripple of illegally raising more than $1.3 billion in an unregistered securities offering by selling XRP.
However, the US magistratesdeterminedin July that the company’s programmatic sales from years ago did not include an offer of investment contract and later dismissed the SEC’s wish to appeal the ruling. A grand trialscheduledfor April next year should put an end to the legal saga between the entities.
