In response to Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal’s post on X platform revealing that the SEC had previously made misleading statements about the characterization of tokens, Binance stated in footnote 6 of the revised complaint that “the SEC regrets any confusion it may have caused”, which means that the SEC had previously incorrectly stated that the tokens themselves were securities.
Ripple Chief Legal Officer Stuart Alderoty responded that the SEC’s move actually admitted two points: one is that “crypto asset securities” is a fictitious term; the other is that to prove that crypto assets are investment contracts, the SEC needs a series of “contracts, expectations and understandings” of evidence. At the same time, he said that the SEC has actually fallen into a dilemma of self-contradiction.