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MLB Team Washington Nationals Partners With Terra Blockchain Community, Ballpark Plans to Accept UST

On February 9, the American professional baseball team based in Washington, D.C., the Washington Nationals, announced the team has partnered with Terra, the open-source blockchain platform and decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). The Washington Nationals detail that the team is a “leading innovator” and is “consistently introducing new technologies to enhance the fan experience.” Washington Nationals Ink Long-Term Deal With Terra Major League Baseball (MLB) team the Washington Nationals has partnered with the blockchain platform and DAO Terra, according to an announcement published by the team on Wednesday. The deal with Terra follows a slew of sports-related deals with crypto firms, but the MLB team will be the first to partner with an open-source blockchain project. In addition to the partnership, the algorithmic stablecoin UST that’s issued on the Terra blockchain will be “accepted as a payment method at Nationals Park as early as next season.” “The Nationals continue t...
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Ripple CEO answers 5 key questions about the SEC lawsuit

Ripple’s CEO Brad Garlinghouse has responded to some of the community’s concerns surrounding the SEC’s $1.3 billion lawsuit against the firm.

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has revealed the firm unsuccessfully attempted to settle its securities violation lawsuit with the SEC, and slammed the “regulatory chaos” around cryptocurrencies. 

In a Twitter thread addressing what he described as “5 key questions”, the CEO strongly denied the “SEC’s unproven allegations” and claimed his firm is “on the right side of the facts and of history.”

Garlinghouse said Ripple would continue to work towards a settlement with the SEC:

“Know we tried - and will continue to try w/ the new administration - to resolve this in a way so the XRP community can continue innovating, consumers are protected and orderly markets are preserved."

The SEC filed a $1.38 billion lawsuit against Ripple, Garlinghouse, and co-founder Chris Larsen, in December over the sale of XRP as unregistered securities. Since the news broke more than 25 platforms including Coinbase, Bittrex, OKCoin and Bitstamp, have suspended trading or delisted the token.

Garlinghouse did not directly address whether Ripple had ever paid for exchanges to list XRP, however he did say that it was one of the most liquid digital assets in the world and that 95% was traded outside the U.S. He was unable to answer when the token would be relisted, noting that “Ripple has no control over where XRP gets listed, who owns it,” calling it open-source and decentralized.

Garlinghouse’s answer, however, left many readers wanting more:

Garlinghouse indicated the company was disappointed that one of their biggest investors, Tetragon, who owns 1.5% of the company, had filed a related lawsuit, however he claimed the company’s other investors still had faith in Ripple.

Garlinghouse said Ripple was currently drafting its response to the lawsuit which it will response within weeks, adding that Ripple’s General Counsel Stuart Alderoty will provide more information.

The Ripple CEO said he was more optimistic about the chances for appropriate regulation in 2021 and that he expected the Digital Commodity Exchange Act to be reintroduced:

“We’ve moved from lack of regulatory clarity to regulatory chaos in the U.S. This is why regulation by enforcement is such bad public policy. With the new administration, we expect #DCEA to be reintroduced - common-sense legislation providing clarity to the entire industry.”

Controversy isn’t a new thing for the firm behind crypto’s fourth largest coin by market cap. Over the last few years, Ripple has been stung by criticism over its massive token liquidations, in addition to a class-action lawsuit accusing Garlinghouse of misleading investors about the attractiveness of XRP.

Despite this week’s recovery of 48%, the token is still 44% down in price on 30 days ago, according to CoinGecko.

The SEC’s case comes on the back of last year’s wins against the two social media platforms, Telegram and Kik after both violated U.S. security laws in relation to initial coin offerings.

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