
KEY POINTS
- The SEC insisted that the court shouldn't dismiss the case as requested by Binance
- The regulator, still under Gary Gensler, insisted that Binance obtained 'ill-gotten gains' from its supposed violations
- Ripple's Stuart Alderoty slammed the SEC's amended complaint as a 'recycled' version of the same 'failed' arguments
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has been quite silent in recent weeks following the election of Donald Trump and a Republican majority in Congress, but on Thursday, the financial regulator reawakened, pushing back against Binance's bid to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that Binance's sales of its BNB coin and other cryptocurrencies were a violation of securities laws.