证券交易委员会已经结束了长达数年的案件，并对一项加密货币该公司首席执行官周三表示，该公司首席执行官与白宫有联系。
Ripple Labs的首席执行官布拉德·加林豪斯(Brad Garlinghouse)在社交媒体平台X上表示，针对他公司的案件“已经结束”。
“今天是一场胜利——也是证交会姗姗来迟的投降，”他说。
SEC发言人拒绝对美国广播公司新闻发表评论。
美国证券交易委员会(SEC)没有证实这一举动，这使得Ripple可能面临1.25亿美元的罚款，而在此之前不到两周，加林豪斯曾在白宫为唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)总统举办了一场派对加密峰会.
涟漪也捐赠500万美元消息人士此前告诉美国广播公司新闻，加林豪斯在社交媒体上发布了一张他1月份与特朗普会面的照片。
SEC的案子已经持续了四年多。2020年12月，特朗普还在任时，美国证券交易委员会(Securities and Exchange Commission)起诉Ripple和两名高管违反证券法，当时他们通过出售XRP加密令牌筹集了14亿美元。
一名联邦法官在2023年给了Ripple一个具有里程碑意义的法律胜利，当时她裁定公开出售的代币不构成证券，尽管她仍然对该公司罚款1.25亿美元，因为代币应该出售给机构投资者。美国证券交易委员会对这一裁决提出了上诉。
截至周三，Ripple对1.25亿美元罚款的上诉仍悬而未决。
在加林豪斯宣布美国证交会放弃上诉后，XRP股价周三飙升逾10%。
在X上的视频声明中，加林豪斯再次称此案为“违法”，并赞扬了政府的变化。
“谢天谢地，我们政府的行政和立法部门有了新的领导层，”他说。“领导层正在积极寻求一种合理的、建设性的方式来推进加密技术。让我们充分利用这一点。”
SEC drops case against crypto firm with ties to Trump, CEO says
The Securities and Exchange Commission has ended its yearslong case and appeal against acryptocurrencyfirm whose CEO has ties to the White House, the CEO said Wednesday.
Brad Garlinghouse, the CEO of Ripple Labs, said on the social media platform X that the case against his company "has ended."
"Today is a victory -- and a long overdue surrender by the SEC," he said.
An SEC spokesperson declined to comment to ABC News.
The move, which was not confirmed by the SEC, prevents Ripple from potentially facing a $125 million fine -- and comes less than two weeks after Garlinghouse was at the White House for President Donald Trump'scrypto summit.
Ripple alsodonated $5 millionto Trump's inaugural committee, sources previously told ABC News, and Garlinghouse posted a photo to social media of him meeting with Trump in January.
The SEC's case had been going on for over four years. In December 2020 -- while Trump was still in office -- the Securities and Exchange Commission sued Ripple and two executives for violating securities laws when they raised $1.4 billion through the sale of XRP crypto tokens.
A federal judge handed Ripple a landmark legal victory in 2023 when she ruled that the publicly sold tokens did not constitute a security, though she still fined the company $125 million because the tokens should have been sold to institutional investors. The SEC had appealed that ruling.
Ripple's appeal of the $125 million fine was still pending as of Wednesday.
Following Garlinghouse's announcement of the SEC dropping its appeal, the price of XRP surged more than 10% on Wednesday.
In his video statement on X, Garlinghouse called the case again him "lawfare" and praised the change in government.
"Thankfully, we have new leadership in the executive and legislative branches of our government," he said. "That leadership is actively seeking a rational and constructive way forward on crypto. Let's make the most of this."
