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As the Ripple v. SEC case continues to unfold, the crypto lawyer and XRP fan John Deaton have accused the Securities and Exchange Commission of abusing Howey’s test in its lawsuit against Ripple, the company that issues XRP.
An asset’s eligibility as an investment contract, and hence its subjectivity to federal security regulations, is established via the Howey test.
Deaton pointed out the fact that the regulating body asserts that XRP itself was, is, and always will be a security, but the SEC’s Howey argument has gotten so stretched out that it is genuinely indefinable, either in space or in time.
According to Deaton, this is not how a Howey analysis is conducted, and it most certainly does not render a token itself always a security regardless of the context in which it is used.
The attorney states that the SEC also contends that XRP itself embodies
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