Ripple

On Friday (September 30), entrepreneur David Gokhshtein, who is Founder and Chairman of crypto-focused media outlet Gokhshtein Media, said that those who keep dumping on XRP are inadvertently helping to grow the XRP community. This was not the first time that Gokhshtein had tweeted about XRP. For example, on September 28, he tweeted: Before we […]

Last week, Ripple Labs CEO Brad Garlinghouse talked to CNBC technology reporter MacKenzie Sigalos about the U.S. SEC’s ongoing lawsuit against himself and his firm. As you may remember, on 22 December 2020, the SEC announced that it had “filed an action against Ripple Labs Inc. and two of its executives, who are also significant security holders, […]

A popular cryptocurrency analyst has predicted that the price of $XRP could soon explode upwards, at a time in which both Ripple and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are looking for a ruling in their long-running legal battle through a so-called summary judgment. Closely-followed trader DonAlt has revealed in a video he sees […]

On Friday (September 23), a very popular crypto analyst explained why $XRP has performed so well in the past week or so. As you can see from data by TradingView, on crypto exchange Bitstamp, XRP-USD has gone from around $0.3238 on September 16 to around $0.4930 where it is today (as of 8:00 a.m. UTC), […]

Earlier this week, at an event organised by Politico, Stuart Aldertoy, who is General Counsel at Ripple, talked about the detrimental effects of “regulatory hostility” toward crypto in the U.S. Aldertoy’s comments were made on September 20 during a conversation with Cally Baute, who is a Senior VP at Politico, at an event called “Writing […]

On Wednesday (September 21), Stuart Alderoty, who is General Counsel at Ripple, commented on the ongoing lawsuit (against Ripple) that was initiated in December 2019 by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Aldertoy, who has been Ripple’s General Counsel since January 2019, made his comments while speaking to CoinDesk TV’s flagship show “First Mover”. As […]

On Wednesday (September 21), Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse talked to Ryan Selkis, Co-Founder and CEO at Messari, at Messari’s annual conference Mainnet (September 21-23, 2022) — in New York City — about the U.S. SEC’s lawsuit against Ripple. First, the Ripple CEO talked about Ripple’s mission and where it stands today: “Today, I believe… we […]

Recently, former Goldman Sachs executive Raoul Pal explained why he is bullish on Ripple and the XRPL Ledger (XRPL). Prior to founding macro economic and investment strategy research service Global Macro Investor (GMI) in 2005, Pal co-managed the GLG Global Macro Fund in London for global asset management firm GLG Partners (which is now called “Man GLG”). Before that, Pal […]

Jeremy Hogan, an $XRP proponent and a U.S. legal counsel, has recently said that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s lawsuit against Ripple and two of its executives alleging they “raised over $1.3 billion through an unregistered, ongoing digital asset securities offering.”  Responding to a user on social media, Hogan noted that the lawsuit could […]

On Thursday (September 1), Emi Yoshikawa, Ripple’s VP of Corporate Strategy and Operations, talked about an important new strategic partnership for her firm. Earlier today, Yoshikawa, who has been working at Ripple for nearly six years, tweeted about a new strategic partnership between Ripple Labs (which is headquartered in San Francisco, California) and Web3 Design Lab, […]

During a recent interview with UK-based news outlet Financial News, Sendi Young, Managing Director for UK and Europe at FinTech firm Ripple, shared her thoughts on the regulation of the crypto space. On 30 June 2021, Ripple announced Young’s appointment. Ripple’s press release stated that Sendi will “oversee strategy and champion the expansion of Ripple’s global financial network technology, RippleNet, […]

The education arm of the world’s largest crypto exchange (by trading volume) has a lot of nice things to say about decentralized public blockchain XRPL Ledger (XRPL) and its native token XRP. The XRP Ledger was created in 2012 by David Schwartz, Jed McCaleb, and Arthur Britto. On 27 February 2020, during an episode of “The Ripple […]

Recently, Grayscale Investments (“Grayscale”), which is one of the world’s largest digital currency asset managers, made some questionable claims about XRP. As Stefan Huber pointed out yesterday (August 21), in an Information Statement for Grayscale Stellar Lumens Trust (XLM) that the firm filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last Tuesday (August 16), here […]

On Friday (August 19), Emi Yoshikawa, Ripple’s VP of Corporate Strategy and Operations, reported a meeting with the mayor of Fakuoka City and his team at Ripple’s headquarters. Fukuoka is the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture in Japan. It is also Japan’s sixth-largest city with a population of around 1.6 million (as of June 2021). […]

American FinTech firm Ripple has announced that Travalex Bank — a subsidiary of Travelex, which is the world’s largest exchange business specialist — in Brazil has started using its XRP-powered On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) solution. ODL uses XRP as a bridge currency, “enabling instant and low cost settlement without the need to hold pre-funded capital in a […]

It seems that Californian FinTech firm Ripple is considering purchasing the assets of bankrupt crypto lending firm Celsius Network. According to a report published by Reuters earlier today, a company representative told them: “We are interested in learning about Celsius and its assets, and whether any could be relevant to our business.“ The Ripple spokesperson […]

Matt Hamilton, a former Principal Developer Advocate at major fintech firm Ripple, has said that the XRP Ledger, whose native token is $XRP, “just works” and has been running for nearly a decade now. Hamilton’s words came during an exchange with another user on the microblogging platform Twitter who defended Bitcoin and its layer-2 scaling […]

Barcelona-headquartered blockchain startup Peersyst has made an important announcement about the first National Land Registry system built on the open-source public XRP Ledger (XRPL). XRPL was created in 2012 by David Schwartz, Jed McCaleb, and Arthur Britto, and its native digital asset is XRP. On July 1, Peersyst announced the launch of Colombia’s first National Land Registry on top of […]

On Saturday (July 30), digital asset $XRP is the highest percentage gainer (vs USD) among the top 30 cryptoassets by market cap, which has helped it to overtake $ADA and take 6th place. According to data by TradingView, on crypto exchange Bitstamp, at 4:29 p.m. UTC on July 30, the $XRP price hit $0.40954, which […]

Ripple’s $XRP-powered On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) solution has seen its volume grow 9x year-over-year in the second quarter of the year, and the company has sold a total of $408.9 million worth of the token in the quarter, compared to $273.27 million in Q1. According to Ripple’s Q2 2022 XRP Markets report, Q2 was a “record […]

On Tuesday (July 26), crypto analytics firm Santiment talked about the XRP Network reaching “a huge milestone.”  According to Santiment’s tweet, “the amount of unique addresses currently interacting on the network has exceeded 247k in just a 4-hour window.” The following chart by Messari (based on data from Coin Metrics) shows how XRP’s Active Address Count has […]

On Monday (July 25), a FinTech award-winning Singapore-based payment solution provider announced a partnership with Californian FinTech firm Ripple in order to use the latter’s XRP-powered On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) solution. ODL uses XRP as a bridge currency, “enabling instant and low cost settlement without the need to hold pre-funded capital in a destination market.” FOMO Pay, […]

Earlier this week, the pseudonymous host of popular crypto market commentary show Coin Bureau shared his latest thoughts on XRP. According to a report by The Daily Hodl published on July 21, here is what the Coin Bureau had to say about XRP in YouTube video released on July 18: “A couple of other stories […]

On Wednesday (July 20), American lawyer John Deaton (@JohnEDeaton1 on Twitter), the owner of the Deaton Law Firm (which is based in East Providence, Rhode Island), who has been closely following and commentating on the SEC’s lawsuit against Ripple, explained to Fox Business why the SEC is angry with him. Deaton is also the founder […]

On Monday (July 18), David Schwartz, who has been Ripple’s Chief Cryptographer since December 2011 and its CTO since July 2018, explained why back in 2012 he did not receive any XRP tokens unlike the two co-architects of the XRP Ledger (XRPL). On 5 September 2018, Forbes published an article (titled “Ripple’s Trillion-Dollar Man”) written […]

On Tuesday (July 19), Brad Garlinghouse and Stuart Alderoty, who are CEO and General Counsel at Ripple respectively, expressed their disappointment with anti-crypto U.S. Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA). Congressman Sherman, who was “born and raised in southern California” is “currently serving his thirteenth term in Congress and has served in the House of Representatives since 1997.” […]

Ripple co-founder Jed McCaleb has sold the last of his $XRP on his “tacostand” wallet on the XRP Ledger after originally owning 9 billion tokens in 2013, when the network was created. Estimates suggest McCaleb made $3 billion through the sale of his tokens. McCaleb is said to have started working on Ripple back in […]

On Tuesday (July 12), FinTech firm Ripple announced that it was “excited” to partner with Ducati Motor Holding, the motorcycle-manufacturing division of Italian company Ducati, and NFT PRO to “launch Web3 initiatives and bring Ducati NFTs to life using the XRP Ledger (XRPL). XRPL was created in 2012 by David Schwartz, Jed McCaleb, and Arthur Britto, and its […]

On Tuesday (July 12), Sarah Netburn, a U.S. Magistrate Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, denied an important motion by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in their lawsuit against Ripple. As you may remember, on 22 December 2020, the SEC announced that it had “filed an action against Ripple Labs Inc. […]

CrossTower, which according to CryptoCompare is one of the highest ranked crypto exchanges in the world, is partnering with Ripple to add support for the trading of NFTs minted on the “ultra-fast, low-cost and carbon-neutral blockchain” XRP Ledger (XRPL) on its NFT marketplace. CrossTower was founded in 2019 by Kapil Rathi (CEO) and Kristin Boggiano […]

Barcelona-headquartered blockchain startup Peersyst recently partnered with FinTech firm Ripple to demonstrate a new use case for the open-source public XRP Ledger (XRPL): an XRP-powered notarization system. XRPL was created in 2012 by David Schwartz, Jed McCaleb, and Arthur Britto, and its native digital asset is XRP. On July 1, Peersyst announced the launch of […]

Brooks Entwistle, SVP of Global Customer Success and the Managing Director for APAC & MENA at Ripple, talked about “crypto winter” on day two of the week-long 2022 Aspen Ideas Festival (AIF) being held in Aspen, Colorado. Before joining Ripple in March 2021, Entwistle “served as Chief Business Officer International for Uber, responsible for business […]

On Friday (June 24), digital asset XRP seems to be having a having a great day. According to data by TradingView, on crypto exchange Bitstamp, at 9:10 a.m. UTC on June 24, the XRP price hit $0.3853, which is the highest level it has been since June 11. Currently (as of 9:33 a.m. UTC on […]

On Wednesday (June 22), FinTech firm Ripple announced the opening of its first office in Canada, which will “serve as a key engineering hub.” This office, which is located in Toronto, Ontario, will at first have 50 engineers, but the aim is to “expand to hundreds of blockchain software engineers including applied machine learning scientists, […]

Last Sunday (June 19), Charles Hoskinson, who is Co-Founder and CEO of IO Global (aka “IOG”, formerly known as “IOHK”), the company responsible for Cardano’s research and development, talked about the FinTech firm’s court battle with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which is arguing that $XRP is an unregistered security. As you may remember, on 22 […]

British automotive company Lotus Cars, which manufactures sports cars and racing cars, has announced “plans to launch into the world of non-fungible tokens (NFTs).” In its press release, Lotus said that fo its first NFT collection it is working with NFT PRO and Ripple (which is “providing technical support” on the XRP Ledger). It also […]

On Monday (June 13), the day that the price of Bitcoin fell to as low as around $22K, Brad Garlinghouse, the CEO of Ripple, explained why his firm, which is a global leader in cross-border payment solutions, has “weathered the cyclical bear markets.” Garlinghouse took to Twitter yesterday to remind people new to the crypto […]

Although most of the crypto community has long believe that Ether ($ETH), the native token of Ethereum, is not a security — as far as the U.S. Securties and Exchange Commission (SEC) is concerned — it wasn’t until this week that we got some evidence that this view may indeed be correct. William Hinman’s June 2018 Speech On […]

On Tuesday, June 7, Sendi Young, Managing Director for Europe and UK at FinTech firm Ripple, explained during an interview why Ripple is continuing “to see strong demand.” On 30 June 2021, Ripple announced Young’s appointment. Ripple’s press release stated that Sendi will “oversee strategy and champion the expansion of Ripple’s global financial network technology, RippleNet, […]

On Tuesday (June 7), Californian FinTech firm Ripple announced a partnership with a German tech startup that specializes in processing cryptocurrency payments for luxury retailers. According to Ripple’s press release, Berlin-based startup Lunu has become a customer of Ripple Liquidity Hub, which allows “financial institutions and businesses” to “easily and efficiently source digital assets from […]

Two of the crypto industry’s top firms are turning aggressive in their hunt for acquisition targets following the collapse in prices across the industry.  According to a report by CNBC published on May 31, Ripple and FTX have both said that they are looking for good acquisition targets, using the recent market crash as a […]

On Sunday (June 5), Matt Hamilton, who is currently Director of Developer Relations at Bittensor, said that he could envision the price of digital asset $XRP one day reaching $100. Between February 2021 and September 2021, Hamilton worked at Ripple as Director of Developer Relations, and between September 2021 and March 2022, he was the Californian […]

On Tuesday (May 31), Matt Hamilton, who is currently Director of Developer Relations at Bittensor, explained why digital asset $XRP has been able to stay among the top 10 cryptoassets by market cap. Between February 2021 and September 2021, Hamilton worked at Ripple as Director of Developer Relations, and between September 2021 and March 2022, […]

Recently, Asheesh Birla, General Manager of RippleNet, at Californian FinTech firm Ripple, spoke to journalist Kathy Chu, who is currently Senior Crypto Correspondent at news organization TruthDAO. During this interview, which was released last Thursday (May 26), the RippleNet GM made a number of interesting comments. Below are a few highlights. On U.S. SEC’s Lawsuit […]

According to a report by news outlet Georgia Online, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse took advantage of this week’s visit to the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting in Davos (Switzerland) to meet Irakli Garibashvili, the Prime Minister of Georgia. Per this report, at this meeting, which took place on May 23, “the Prime Minister offered the CEO of […]

On Wednesday (May 25), Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse shares his thoughts on a variety of interesting crypto-related topics while being interviewed by CNBC senior technology correspondent Arjun Kharpal at this year’s World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Below, are highlights of Garlinghouse’s comments during this interview. On 2017-2018 ICO Boom “I think in some ways […]

On Tuesday (May 24), Maria Bartiromo, the anchor of “Mornings with Maria” on American cable TV channel Fox Business Network (FBN), interviewed Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse, who was attending the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. During this interview, when Bartiromo asked the Ripple CEO to share his thoughts on the crypto market, Garlinghouse replied: […]

San Francisco-based FinTech firm Ripple has announced a $100 million commitment to “scale and strengthen” global carbon markets.  According to Ripple’s press release, this funding will “accelerate carbon removal activity and help modernize carbon markets through investments in innovative carbon removal companies and climate-focused fintechs.” Also, Ripple will “build a portfolio of additive, long-term, nature […]

American FinTech firm Ripple and Lithuanian FinTech firm FINCI have entered into a strategic partnership that will enable “instant and cost-effective retail remittances and business to business (B2B) payments via RippleNet’s On-Demand Liquidity (ODL), which leverages XRP for crypto-enabled cross border payments.” FINCI is “a fintech company offering a range of financial services for private […]

The host of popular crypto commentary and market analytics show Coin Bureau has shed some light on why the U.S.’s top financial regulator is targeting Ripple (which is headquartered in San Francisco, California) and digital asset XRP. In December 2020, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged payments start-up Ripple and two executives — […]

Ripple’s $XRP-powered On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) solution has seen its volume grow 8x year-over-year in the first quarter of 2022, with RippleNet seeing $15 billion in annualized payment volumes during the quarter. According to Ripple’s Q1 2022 XRP Markets Report, the volume of its XPR-powered solution saw market “unprecedented growth” as its customers used ODL “for […]

On Tuesday (April 26), Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Californian FinTech firm Ripple, talked about his company’s court battle with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which is arguing that $XRP is an unregistered security, as well as how $XRP is being used outside the U.S. As you may remember, on 22 December 2020, the […]

On Thursday (April 14), the team behind cross-chain bridge Allbridge announced that it had “successfully integrated support for XRP Ledger (XRPL), a decentralized, public blockchain built for payments,” delivering on a promise it made back in January. What Is Allbridge? According to Allbridge’s documentation, a blockchain bridge is “a connection that allows tokens and/or arbitrary data to […]

On Thursday (April 15), Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse explained why his firm uses the $XRP token for payments, why he is “incredibly bullish” on crypto, and why Biden’s executive order about crypto regulation is “very significant”. Garlinghouse, who was in France for Paris Blockchain Week Summit (PBWS), made these comments during an interview with CNBC. […]

Ripple, a popular fintech firm and a major player in the $XRP market, has announced it has developed a new standard, called XLS-20, to “help developers build more advanced and innovative NFT applications” on top of the XRP Ledger. According to the company, the new XLS-20 standard will equip the XRP Ledger with the tools […]

Earlier this week, Markus Infanger, Ripple’s Global Head Institutional Markets talked about real-world use cases for liquidity while appearing as part of a panel at CryptoCompare Digital Asset Summit 2022 (held on March 30 in London). The purpose of this panel (titled “Sold Facts, Liquid Truth: Building High Liquidity Digital Asset Markets”), which was moderated […]

RippleNet General Manager Asheesh Birla has shared his latest thoughts on Ripple’s existing On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) product as well as Liquidity Hub, which is going live later this year. Here is Birla’s bio on Ripple’s website, where he is listed as a member of the Leadership Team: “Asheesh is the GM of RippleNet at Ripple, […]

In a recent interview, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse talked about how the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) views cryptoasset XRP vs how it looked at by financial regulators in other major jurisdictions. As you may remember, on 22 December 2020, the SEC announced that it had “filed an action against Ripple Labs Inc. and two of its […]

Ripple, a popular fintech firm and a major player in the $XRP market, has announced it’s committing 1 billion XRP, worth nearly $800 million, to “accelerate development and new use cases on the XRP Ledger.” The 1 billion XRP fund, according to a press release, is an extension to the firm’s XRPL Grants program that […]

The CEO of Ripple Brad Garlinghouse has revealed on social media he believes the fintech firm has scored a “huge win” after the firm’s general counsel Stuart Alderoty revealed the court denied the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s motion to strike its fair notice defense. Per Alderoty, the order revealed there’s a “serious question” as […]