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<pre class="wp-block-verse has-text-align-center">Altcoin has risen in price by 13% in a day, while other leading cryptocurrencies do not show noticeable growth</pre>



<p>The price of the <strong>Ripple </strong>token rose against the background of <a href="https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2022/11/14/first-mover-asia-extreme-fear-hits-crypto-as-ftx-hack-makes-bad-situation-worse-what-comes-next/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">positive expectations</a> of the <strong>crypto </strong>community from the end of the trial between the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and <strong>Ripple</strong>. The value of the <strong>altcoin </strong>has increased by 13% in a day, while other leading <strong>cryptocurrencies </strong>do not show a noticeable change in price over this period.</p>



<p>The <strong>XRP </strong>token is trading near the $0.4 mark. Its market capitalization is $19 billion with a daily trading volume of about $2.4 billion, according to <a href="https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/xrp" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CoinGecko</a>. The share of the token in the <strong>cryptocurrency </strong>market is 2.2%.</p>


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<p>The <strong>SEC </strong>litigation with <strong>Ripple </strong>has become one of the most important in the history of <strong>cryptocurrencies</strong>. Its outcome will determine which digital coins can be recognized as securities under US law.</p>



<p>Emails and notes that helped shape one of the most significant speeches in the history of <strong>cryptocurrency </strong>are being withheld from CoinDesk by the <strong>SEC</strong>.<br>At the Yahoo Markets Summit in 2018, William Hinman, who was then the Director of Corporation Finance at the <strong>SEC </strong>Commission, gave a lecture that turned out to be a turning point for <strong>cryptocurrency</strong>: A security is not ether.</p>



<p><br>At the time, Hinman claimed that Ether had &#8220;sufficiently decentralized&#8221; and therefore passed its ambiguous status as a security-not-a-security and transformed into a commodity.</p>



<p>The speech&#8217;s transcript states, &#8220;Based on my understanding of Ether&#8217;s current condition, the <strong>Ethereum </strong>network, and its decentralized structure, current offers and sells of Ether are not securities transactions.&#8221; &#8220;Purchasers would no longer reasonably expect an individual or group to perform</p>



<p>In December 2020, the SEC sued <strong>blockchain </strong>company <strong>Ripple</strong>, accusing it of selling $1.3 billion worth of unregistered securities under the guise of <strong>XRP </strong>tokens. The emails of former SEC corporate finance director William Hinman and his speech in 2018 are considered the main evidence in this case.</p>



<p><strong>Ripple </strong>requested these documents for a long time, and received a positive court decision in January 2022. The judge ordered the SEC to provide the requested information to Ripple. However, the SEC insists that this is Hinman&#8217;s personal opinion, and is trying to delay the consideration and disclosure of this information.</p>



<p>But it looks like it will now become clear that the <strong>SEC </strong>provided a lot of guidance in drafting Hinman&#8217;s speech, <strong>Ripple&#8217;s </strong>general counsel Stu Alderothy said, <a href="https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2022/11/14/first-mover-asia-extreme-fear-hits-crypto-as-ftx-hack-makes-bad-situation-worse-what-comes-next/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">according </a>to CoinDesk . The contributions of other SEC officials, he said, could undermine the argument that Hinman&#8217;s speech was his own opinion and &#8220;not necessarily the panel&#8217;s opinion.&#8221; The <strong>Ripple</strong>-SEC case could end early next year as the November meeting was rescheduled.</p>



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