Ripple's grueling battle with the Securities and Exchange Commission is officially over.

In 2020, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sued a company called Ripple, alleging it was in breach of financial securities laws for the way it was issuing its cryptocurrency token, XRP ( XRP ) . The lawsuit threatened to derail Ripple's business model, and it suppressed the price of XRP for years.

But everything changed when President Donald Trump was reelected last November. He promised to make America "the crypto capital of the world," which involved taking a friendlier approach to regulation. He appointed crypto-advocate Paul Atkins to run the SEC, and the agency has since withdrawn from several active cases against industry giants like Binance and Coinbase .

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