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JPMorgan<\/strong>\u00a0believes the\u00a0release of the\u00a0Hinman<\/strong>\u00a0documents\u00a0in the ongoing legal battle between Ripple and the US\u00a0Securities and Exchange Commission<\/strong>\u00a0could benefit\u00a0ethereum (ETH)<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a\u00a0Thursday research report, JPMorgan analyst\u00a0Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou<\/strong>\u00a0wrote that the internal SEC messages related to a 2018 speech by former Director\u00a0William Hinman<\/strong>\u00a0suggest ether did not look like a security.<\/p>\n

The report said that the SEC officials acknowledged back then that the \u201cfact that tokens on a sufficiently decentralized network are no longer securities creates a regulatory gap.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe speech acknowledges that there is an other category,\u201d Panigirtzoglou wrote, adding that \u201cit is not a security because there is no controlling group (at least in the Howey test) yet there may be a need for regulation to protect purchasers.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Howey test is a legal test used in the United States to determine whether a transaction qualifies as an investment contract and, thus, is considered a security under federal law.<\/p>\n

JPMorgan Says SEC Hasn’t Taken Action Against Ether Due to Hinman Documents<\/h2>\n

JPMorgan analysts said that the SEC’s decision not to take action against ether so far this year while targeting other crypto tokens could be explained by the Hinman documents.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to the analysts, the Hinman documents could influence the direction of the ongoing US congressional effort to regulate the cryptocurrency industry in a way that allows ether to avoid being designated as a security.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The easiest solution for Congress would be to regulate ether in the same manner as\u00a0bitcoin (BTC)<\/strong>, and oversee it as a commodity under the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), JPMorgan said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The bank said that a new “other category” could be introduced for ether and other cryptocurrencies that are decentralized enough to avoid being classified as securities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“This ‘other category’ that would involve more restrictions and investor protections than currently envisaged for commodities but less onerous than those required for securities.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

JPMorgan noted that the more decentralized a cryptocurrency is, the higher its chance of not being categorized as a security.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Why Are Hinman Documents Important For Crypto?<\/h2>\n

The Hinman documents refer to a speech given by William Hinman, the former director of the Division of Corporation Finance at the SEC, in June 2018.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the speech, Hinman discussed how the SEC would approach classifying cryptocurrencies under securities laws.<\/p>\n

The Hinman documents are important in the crypto world because they provide guidance on whether a particular crypto asset is a security or not.<\/p>\n

Hinman outlined a framework for cryptocurrency classification based on the Howey test, which looks at whether an investment involves the expectation of profits from a common enterprise, and whether those profits come from the efforts of others.<\/p>\n

The Hinman documents have been cited in several legal cases involving cryptocurrencies, with the most prominent one being the SEC vs. Ripple case.<\/p>\n

The Ripple SEC case centers around whether the\u00a0XRP token<\/strong>\u00a0is a security or a currency, and whether Ripple conducted an unregistered securities offering with it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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