{"id":64784,"date":"2025-12-22T20:31:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T20:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=64784"},"modified":"2025-12-22T20:31:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T20:31:38","slug":"xrp-holders-waited-all-year-for-10-3-reasons-why-it-never-came","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=64784","title":{"rendered":"XRP Holders Waited All Year For $10\u20143 Reasons Why It Never Came"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>XRP<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"XRP\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/XRP-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/xrp\/usd\">XRP<\/a>) holders that bet on $10 in 2025 are down 8% since the start of the year, refuting the wide-spread belief at the start of 2025 that 2025 would be a positive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/money\/ripple-xrp-price-prediction\">year for altcoins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reason #1: SEC Lawsuit Dragged Till August<\/h3>\n<p>The SEC vs. Ripple lawsuit didn\u2019t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/08\/46996498\/xrp-surges-8-as-ripple-sec-case-concludes-traders-ancitipate-multi-phase-rally\">conclude<\/a> until Aug. 22 when the court clerk certified that both parties dropped their appeals.<\/p>\n<p>The delay was not random. Former SEC Chair <strong>Gary Gensler<\/strong> filed a last-minute <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/government\/regulations\/24\/11\/42120607\/gary-gensler-to-step-down-as-sec-chair-on-trumps-inauguration-day\">appeal<\/a> just five days before <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> fired him from office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was similar to what happened in 2020, when <strong>Jay Clayton<\/strong> filed the original lawsuit on his final day as SEC chair.<\/p>\n<p>Because of that appeal, the case stayed alive for months longer than expected.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As long as the lawsuit was still open, XRP could not break out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Big institutions stayed away, ETF issuers could not move forward, and every rally stalled.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reason #2: ETFs Didn\u2019t Launch Till November<\/h3>\n<p>XRP spot ETFs didn\u2019t go live until November, delayed by both the lawsuit and the government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/news\/politics\/25\/10\/47961129\/us-government-shuts-down-as-trumps-last-ditch-effort-fails-from-jobs-to-travel-and-more-heres-the-potential-impact\">shutdown<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Six of seven ETF issuers updated their S-1 filings on August 22\u2014the day the case officially ended\u2014to confirm the lawsuit was resolved.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Then the government shutdown forced another delay.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Atkins<\/strong> at the SEC provided a workaround &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/12\/49547700\/xrp-holders-waited-all-year-for-10-3-reasons-why-it-never-came?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"XRP\" holders waited all year for reasons why it never came>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) holders that bet on $10 in 2025 are down 8% since the start of the year, refuting the wide-spread belief at the start of 2025 that 2025 would be a positive year for altcoins. Reason #1: SEC Lawsuit Dragged Till August The SEC vs. Ripple lawsuit didn\u2019t conclude until Aug. 22 when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-64784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}