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The SEC sued Ripple in December 2020 over XRP sales, and the litigation ran until 2025 with rulings that split institutional and programmatic sales apart. That distinction is now part of how regulators think about crypto asset sales.
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AI visual note: A page from a legal document (page 23) discussing the SEC v. Ripple case, analyzing the economic reality of Programmatic Sales and concluding that Programmatic Buyers 'stood in the same shoes as a secondary market purchaser who did not know to whom or what it was paying its money.'