Noting that Coinbase is not licensed to sell securities, the suit called Coinbase’s sale of XRP “unlawful” and “fraudulent,” claiming that “Coinbase falsely represented that XRP was a commodity when… Defendant knew it was a security.” It also said that selling XRP was “unfair” as it gave Coinbase “an unwarranted competitive advantage over digital asset exchanges that only sold commodities.”

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong faces a class action lawsuit over XRP sales (Photo: TechCrunch/Steve Jennings)