... holding the second place by market capitalization, only behind Bitcoin. Since then, its position has weakened somewhat, partly due to legal proceedings. The most high-profile case is the lawsuit initiated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against Ripple in December 2020. The regulator claimed that XRP was issued and sold as an unregistered security. This process has dragged on for several years, resulting in XRP being delisted from several American exchanges and uncertainty surrounding ...