As of Tuesday at 13:25 UTC, XRP was up by 8.8% over the past 24 hours and 36% over the past 7 days. The coin traded at USD 0.845, and it is currently ranked as the 6 most valuable crypto per CoinGecko’s ranking.
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The recent gains for XRP positioned the coin among the top performers both on a 24-hour and 7-day basis, with only four small-cap altcoins from the top 100 performing better than it over the past day.
The bullish moves for XRP over the past week followed new orders issued by a judge in relation to a lawsuit that the SEC filed against Ripple. The suit alleges that Ripple’s sale of XRP tokens, which began in 2013, constituted an illegal and unregistered securities sale.
this time, issued by judge Analisa Torres, gave Ripple the permission to respond to an SEC memorandum of law, saying the firm has given “good cause” to file a reply directed at arguments raised by the SEC “for the first time.”
Additionally, the judge also said that emails from Ripple’s co-founder and chairman Chris Larsen, as well as the company’s current CEO Brad Garlinghouse, should be unsealed.
(2/3) Torres will unseal an email to Larsen and legal memos to Ripple, finding arguments to seal "unjustified" but granted redactions to Garlinghouse to protect "potentially sensitive information" in three documents.
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According to Jeremy Hogan, a partner at the law firm Hogan & Hogan, the main takeaway from the latest orders is that judge Torres is “getting ready to take over” and move the case forward.
“[W]e are moving into the second phase of the case where “things” are going to happen,” the lawyer added in a
The new orders from judge Torres follow reports from last month about Ripple winning the right to access a much-contested document containing quotes by an SEC official on the matter of whether or not is deemed a security.
The question of whether the SEC views ETH as security is assumed to also have implications for XRP’s legal status.
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