Binance and its former CEO, CZ, have filed a motion to dismiss the US Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) amended complaint, which alleges violations related to various cryptocurrencies. The SEC's claims, submitted in September, target additional tokens, including Axie Infinity Shards, Filecoin, Cosmos’ ATOM, The Sandbox’s SAND, and Decentraland’s MANA. Binance’s legal team argues that the SEC’s updated lawsuit does not hold, as the court had previously rejected the notion that crypto assets inherently qualify as securities. They assert that secondary market resales of these assets should not be deemed securities transactions. The SEC's claims focused on blind transactions, where buyers are not fully aware they are purchasing tokens from Binance Holdings. Legal parallels are drawn to a July 2023 ruling involving Ripple's XRP sales, where certain transactions were similarly ruled not to violate securities laws. This motion is part of an ongoing legal battle following allegations against Binance regarding US Anti-Money Laundering laws since June 2023.

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