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The post XRP News: SEC’s Peirce Says She Never Backed Ripple Lawsuit appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News August turned into a landmark month for Ripple and the XRP ecosystem after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission formally ended its multi-year case accusing Ripple Labs of offering unregistered securities. The lawsuit, originally filed in December 2020 near the end of President Donald Trump’s first term, targeted Ripple’s sales of XRP and set off one of the most polarizing legal battles in the digital asset industry. In a recent interview with Thinking Crypto, SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce shed rare light on why the case was brought in the first place and why she herself never supported it.  Why Was the Ripple Case Filed? Peirce Says She Never Supported It When asked directly why the SEC chose to sue Ripple at that moment in time, Peirce made it clear that she cannot speak for the agency’s full reasoning. She reminded that she did not back the lawsuit and therefore cannot explain the internal motives behind it. Peirce said the case was part of a broader enforcement-driven approach that she has long been uncomfortable with. In her view, the SEC was using enforcement actions to create rules instead of building a proper regulatory framework for digital assets. She described the early crypto era as a difficult landscape where innovation was moving faster than regulation, and she believes the SEC should have taken a more constructive approach. According to Peirce, the healthier path would have been to examine how different projects were offering their tokens and work toward a system that encouraged better disclosures while giving market participants clear choices rather than punishing innovation through litigation. Her Take on Judge Torres’s Ruling: Token vs Transaction Commissioner Peirce also commented on Judge Analisa Torres’s highly…

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