Ripple’s top lawyer stepped in with a legal reality check hours after the Senate’s CLARITY Act cloture vote collapsed. Stuart Alderoty, Ripple’s Chief Legal Officer, told markets that XRP legal status did not hinge on the bill in the first place. He cited the 2023 federal court ruling that cleared XRP in secondary market sales, and the March 2026 joint SEC-CFTC interpretation that formally named XRP a digital commodity.