Ripple se opune cererii SEC de a sigila identitățile martorilor experți în procesul XRP

Cryptocurrency firm Ripple Labs filed a letter of response on Monday to oppose the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s cerere de sigilare portions of legal filings that contain information identifying the SEC’s proposed expert witnesses, as the SEC’s proces împotriva Ripple Labs trage mai departe.

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• Ripple wrote in the Monday response that the SEC “has not made the necessary particularized demonstration of fact” to establish that the sealing is appropriate.
• SEC a depus o moțiune on Friday, seeking to seal part of the information from Aug. 30 reply briefs in support of the SEC’s and Ripple’s previous motions to exclude SEC expert testimony. The agency a spus anterior such sealing could protect witnesses from potential harassment.
• În decembrie 2020, SEC a intentat un proces against Ripple alleging that its sale of XRP — the native coin of the XRP Ledger created by Ripple Labs — was an unregistered securities offering worth over US$1.38 billion. The SEC also named Ripple’s executive chairman Chris Larsen and CEO Brad Garlinghouse as co-defendants for allegedly aiding and abetting Ripple’s violations.
• Also on Monday, District Judge Analisa Torres approved the SEC’s and Ripple’s joint letter that specified schedules for redactions concerning sealing issues, a move that’s widely seen as an attempt from both parties to speed up the resolution of the lawsuit, a tweet by defense lawyer James K. Filan showed.
• XRP traded up 0.32% in the past 24 hours at US$0.354 at 10:40 a.m. Hong Kong time, according to date de la CoinMarketCap.

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