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- Ripple Labs suggested a “maturation test” to determine when the crypto’s should no longer be regarded as securities.
- The criteria include a market value threshold of $ 1 billion, 10-year operational network and an open, permitless structure.
Ripple has proposed a new legislative framework to determine when the cryptotocence should no longer be regarded as securities.
The company calls it a “network maturity” test, which would evaluate whether a token has grown its initial investment agreement based on objective criteria such as market value, operational history and decentralization of control.
The proposal is described in a May 27 letter From Ripple’s legal team to SEC’s Crypto Task Force, which answers the agency’s question about when a crypto access, is originally part of an investment contract, becomes legally separate from that contract.
“In new legislation, an approach to filling the gap is to consider the network’s maturity as the guide post for when a digital asset increases from an investment contract,” Ripple’s legal team noted.
“When mature, the digital asset should be able to circulate without registration or the need for exceptions under the securities laws – since it is no longer part of an investment contract, and transactions in it are not securities transactions, even if they are implemented by parties originally associated with the asset,” they.
At present, there is no light line river according to federal law for when a crypto token goes from being part of a securities offered to be a free commercial goods or currency.
SEC has historically moved concepts such as “adequate decentralization” to describe when a symbol may no longer be a security.
According to Ripple, however, this is too vague and subjective. The team has proposed the “network maturity” test as a clearer and more practical alternative to “decentralization.”
According to this approach, tokens can be excluded from securities regulation if they meet specific criteria, such as a high market value, a long operational, stateless network and the absence of any party with unilateral control over the protocol.
Ripple said that tokens that meet these standards are already about broad, liquid markets with sufficient public information and market data. The company proposed a threshold value of $ 1 billion and a 10-year operating requirement as reasonable benchmarks.
Token separation and secure port suggestions
In addition to its legislative recommendation, Ripple has presented a legal test to clarify when a crypto toe sold as part of an investment contract should no longer be treated as one.
Under this framework, a symbol is assumed to have separated unless the issuer has made a significant promise that is not met and the current holder has enforceable rights bound to the promise.
The test is designed to reduce ambiguity and prevent indefinite regulatory burdens on secondary market participants. It preserves Sec’s enforcement authority in cases involving unfulfilled promises or resale of poor faith and makes it possible to form new investment contracts by downstream players if justified.
While recognizing the Sec’s concern about enforcement gap, Ripple claims that only Congress has an authority to establish new legal standards for crypto assets.
Meanwhile, Ripple SEC is urging to interpret the law in question faithfully and refrain from extending its legislation in addition to clearly defined legal limits. The team also supports the creation of a narrow, well -designed safe port to protect actors for good faith during early network development.
The letter follows a court in Secs against Ripple Labs, where judges Analisa Torres considered that XRP is not a security when traded in secondary markets.
However, the Court separated these transactions from Ripple’s previously direct sales to institutional investors, which were considered unregistered securities offers.
Ripple has not completely closed the book on his legal battle. Earlier this month, Judge Torres refused to approve The company’s proposed penalty agreement with $ 125 million with SEC and keeps the case unsolved.
