Context before attribution.
This event directly changed the information or market-access environment around XRP.
SEC v. Ripple
SEC files civil action against Ripple and two executives
The SEC filed its civil enforcement action in federal court. This marks the beginning of the litigation period; market comparisons do not establish causation.
- Verified UTC window
- December 22, 2020
- Direction recorded
- negative
- Contagion scope
- asset-specific
- Affected assets
- XRP
Measure the window; do not invent a cause.
XRP observations are compared with the total digital-asset market over the same completed UTC dates. The comparison describes relative performance; it does not establish a single cause.
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Returns describe coincident market behavior around a documented event. They do not prove that the event caused the move or exclude other XRP-specific, crypto-market, or macro factors.
Entities and related research
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