Odaily Planet Daily News Crypto journalist Eleanor Terrett posted on the X platform that Judge Torres' ruling on the Ripple case last August is still valid, which means that Ripple still needs to pay a $125 million fine. Although the SEC has agreed in principle to abandon its appeal of programmatic/secondary market sales, Ripple has not yet agreed to abandon its appeal of the $125 million fine and the ongoing ban, which prevents it from selling XRP to institutional investors without registering these sales as securities. Sources said that technically, Ripple is now the plaintiff rather than the defendant. Ripple can choose to continue to appeal the fine and ban, or it can revoke the fine and ban.