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The price of XRP on Coinbase tanked from $0.28 to $0.24 within the first 20 minutes of the announcement. Since the announcement of the SEC’s lawsuit last week, the price of XRP has fallen by more than 50%.
For Coinbase, the reason for dropping XRP as a traded asset was simple: As the company seeks to go public, being a platform for something that’s potentially a security would mean adding more paperwork simply so it could be legally allowed to let retail customers buy and sell a single cryptocurrency.
The SEC claimed last week that XRP is a security, and that Ripple has been selling it without registering or seeking an exemption for seven years, raising $1.3 billion in the process. The legal battle itself is just beginning, and litigation might take years if Ripple fights the charge in court, as it has indicated it would.
Coinbase is now the biggest exchange to act on XRP and could serve as a bellwether for other platforms. On Friday, Bitstamp announced it would halt XRP trading and deposits for all U.S. customers on Jan. 8.
Similarly San Francisco-based OKCoin announced its XRP suspension earlier Monday, effective Jan. 4.
Exchanges that continue to list XRP without registering as a securities exchange with the SEC face potential consequences down the luding possible enforcement actions. However, should Ripple prevail in its defense, Coinbase can likely re-list XRP fairly easily.
Alex Kruger, a trader and analyst, said, “Crypto exchanges are unregistered with the SEC (by choice, as registering carries on many burdens and increased costs) and thus it is in their best interest to not offer trading of securities. It is for their protection, not their customers’.â€
Gabriel Shapiro, an attorney with Belcher, Smolen & Van Loo LLP, told CoinDesk last week that the question of whether exchanges should delist is a complicated one, with both business and legal
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