XRP soared as much as 61% on Thursday after a US judge said certain aspects of the sale of the token did not break federal securities laws.
The SEC had sued Ripple for the sale of its XRP token in 2020 for the failure to register XRP as a security.
US District Judge for the Southern District of New York Analisa Torres said the XRP token is "not necessarily a security on its face."
But there are multiple facets of the ruling and it gets complicated depending on the type of sale of XRP.
A motion for summary judgement filed by the SEC in its "aiding and abetting" allegations against Garlinghouse and Larsen was denied.
Persons:
Brad Garlinghouse, Christian Larsen, of New York Analisa Torres, Torres, Garlinghouse, Larsen, bitcoin
Organizations:
SEC, Service, US, Southern, of, of New York, Twitter
Locations:
Wall, Silicon, of New