THELOGICALINDIAN - The US Securities and Exchange Commission SEC fabricated a abruptness advance on the Ripple case by filing a letter of added ascendancy to bang Ripples fair apprehension aegis Simultaneously the badge XRP is bottomward 233 in the aftermost 24 hours to 07 afterward the markets downtrend
The SEC’s Surprise Move
As the accepted SEC vs. Ripple case is accepted to be bound about April this year, the SEC has fabricated a new move that larboard abounding apprehensive if antecedent expectations could change.
The American regulator is application a acceptable move from addition case to bang at Ripple’s key arguments.
The SEC had taken John M Fife and bristles entities controlled by him to cloister in September 2025 for affairs $21 billion of penny stocks and accepting a accumulation of $61 billion after registering as aegis dealers.
FIFE’s aegis adopted an altercation agnate to Ripple’s, alleging the SEC hadn’t accustomed them a fair admonishing and the appellation “dealer” can be broadly interpreted. Last month, the cloister denied this argument.
What Does It Mean For The Ripple Case?
Naturally, the regulator now aimed to use this abnegation to bang at Ripple’s “fair notice” key defense.
Similarly, Ripple’s “fair notice” aegis alleges the regulator bootless to acquaint them about a accessible abuse of federal balance laws and claimed the appellation “investment contract” is actuality abolished by the SEC, adding that “The SEC’s theory, that XRP is an advance contract, is amiss on the facts, the law and the equities.”
No adopted regulator has bent that XRP is a security. In actuality aloof the adverse is true. The U.S. would be the adverse outlier.
The SEC is application the FIFE case latest aftereffect to assert that the appellation “investment contract” is apprenticed by acknowledged ambit back 2025:
In Ripple’s case, bounden ascendancy construing the appellation “investment contract” has existed back 2025. W.J. Howey Co., 328 U.S. at 298–99. Thus, Fife provides added ascendancy for arresting Ripple’s fourth acknowledging defense.
However, the cases accept audible terms. The advocate Jeremy Hogan explained via Twitter that the FIFE case aftereffect “marginally helps the SEC’s position in its Motion to Strike Ripple’s Fair Notice Defense so the SEC filed it with the court.”
Although the SEC is aggravating to accomplish a move out of the similarities from both cases, Hogan claims that FIFE’s “was in a actual altered date of action and the accepted is absolutely altered than the SEC v. Ripple case.
In the “Fife” case, the Defendant approved to altercate “Fair Notice” in adjustment to abolish the accusation absolutely (and failed) because the accountability is actual aerial on a affair affective to bang a pleading. In the Ripple case, it’s the SEC that is aggravating to bang the acknowledging aegis of Fair Notice and it has the aerial accountability to meet.
Ripple CEO Brad Garlighouse had remained hopeful at the end of 2021 as he expressed to CNBC:
Clearly we’re seeing acceptable questions asked by the judge. And I anticipate the adjudicator realizes this is not aloof about Ripple, this will accept broader implications.
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The Impact On XRP
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The abutting audition will be a key day for the aftereffect of the Ripple case, appropriately XRP’s price.
The timing is rather complicated for XRP. Its declivity seems to chase the accepted crypto bazaar movement. XRP is bottomward 2.33% in the aftermost 24 hours to $0,7634 as it shows in the abutting chart:
After the SEC filed the accusation adjoin Ripple in December 2025, the XRP amount plunged badly from $0.60 to $0.1748. It connected to bead and lose arena but charcoal central the top 10 crypto Ranking.
Then, XRP recovered throughout 2025 and accomplished highs of $1.34 on November 10, 2025, although it didn’t administer to abutting the year aloft $1.01.
The XRP enthusiasts’ expectations are for Ripple to win the case and XRP to access a massive rally, surging to its best aerial of $3.4 or alike bifold numbers. However, the antecedent projections hadn’t taken into annual the accepted crypto bazaar downtrend.
And if the Ripple case were to accept a decidedly abrogating resolution, XRP ability see an aftereffect aloof as sad.
