XRP Pumps and Drops After a ‘Huge Win’ for Ripple

cryptonews.com:

The price of XRP, the cryptoasset affiliated with the American fintech firm Ripple, pumped strongly on Friday, before falling back down over the weekend. The moves came after a federal judge had rejected the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)'s move to strike Ripple’s “fair notice” defense in the case.

On Monday at 12:34 UTC, XRP stood at USD 0.7632, down 2.6% for the past 24 hours and up 5.1% for the past 7 days.

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The action for XRP, a crypto promoted by Ripple to financial institutions as a way for them to make faster and cheaper cross-border payments, came after what was seen as a victory for the company in a US Federal Court in New York before the weekend.

According to the court documents, Judge Analisa Torres said that the SEC cannot deny Ripple its affirmative defense that it was not given “fair notice” from the SEC that distribution of XRP tokens was in violation of securities laws.

The court “concludes that the SEC has not met its burden of demonstrating that there are no questions of fact or law that might allow the defense to succeed,” Judge Torres wrote.

Ripple’s General Counsel, Stuart Alderotoy, reacted positively to the news on Twitter:

In response to the ruling, XRP started moving around 19:00 UTC on Friday, pumping more than 16% in a matter of 7 hours. However, it later fell back and was at the time of writing just over 10% down from a peak of USD 0.85.

And while the judge’s order may have been perceived as good news for the company in that it will be allowed to use its “fair notice” defense, more trouble could still lie ahead for the individuals running the firm.

According to the court documents, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse and chairman and co-founder Chris Larsen will still have