Ripple Labs
Cross-border payments. Issuer of XRP. Custodies/escrows large XRP supply.
Dec 2020: SEC sued Ripple over unregistered XRP sales. July 2023: judge ruled programmatic sales weren't securities; institutional sales were. Aug 2024: $125M penalty (vs SEC's $1B+ ask).
Bitcoin, ether showed slight losses while Ripple-linked XRP fell 5.5% on the week, the worst of the majors, as the Senate left Washington without taking up the market structure bill.
Flare's FXRP has been approved as collateral in a $280 million RLUSD lending vault, allowing XRP holders to tap Ethereum's lending markets.
Ripple made a strategic investment in Zilo and Licuido as it looks to enable the use of tokenized funds as collateral from the point of issuance.
Ripple said the deals are set to bring regulated transfer agency, issuance, and collateral mobility to its infrastructure on the XRP Ledger.
Ripple launches Mint to expand RLUSD access for institutions as the stablecoin’s market cap approaches $1.6 billion.
Ripple launched an institutional minting platform and added RLUSD to Notabene’s compliance network as holder growth rose but monthly transfer volume fell to $10.95 billion.
Ripple recently joined x402 Foundation, serving as a premier member alongside Coinbase, Circle, and Visa.
The Ripple-linked token just had its best day in weeks, as Washington may finally be delivering what the XRP Army has been waiting for.
ESMA adds 14 CASPs to its MiCA register, with banks and Ripple Payments Europe among the new entries as total providers reach 294.
Forty companies now govern x402, the protocol Coinbase built and handed away. It settled about $24 million last month across 75 million payments.
The startup enables corporate users to use stablecoins while connecting to traditional banking rails and compliance systems.
RLUSD is a regulated stablecoin issued by Ripple Labs — the firm behind the XRP blockchain — designed to maintain a steady value of one U.S. dollar per token. Each RLUSD is backed one-to-one by a reserve of cash, short-term U.S. Treasury bills, and other cash equivalents, and is redeemable for U.S. dollars by approved […]
A Treasury-backed report targets putting repo, gilts and funds onchain within two years, and warms to permissionless networks that firms like Ripple have been building on.
Ripple's Brad Garlinghouse says he and co-founder Chris Larsen considered winding the company down and handing its XRP to shareholders before deciding to fight the 2020 lawsuit.
Ripple and XRP become the latest crypto brands to enter the sports marketing space.
Besides the sports partnership, Ripple has committed to fund financial and technology education programs for student-athletes.
The Luxembourg approval completes the company's MiCA licensing process, enabling it to provide regulated crypto-asset services across the European Economic Area.
The approval means Ripple is now fully MiCA-compliant for payments, financial institutions, corporates and businesses across all 30 European Economic Area countries.
Ripple secured full MiCA CASP authorization from Luxembourg for regulated crypto services across all 30 European Economic Area countries.
While engaged in negotiations over ethics in a crypto market structure bill in Congress, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand said she had “no involvement” in her son’s derivatives exchange, backed by at least one industry figure.
Colorado’s Democratic and Republican primaries finished on Tuesday, with at least one candidate supported by $1 million from a crypto-aligned PAC going to the November general election.
Crypto firms contributed $189 million to the 2026 midterms, with Ripple, Crypto.com and Coinbase leading corporate donations.
Ripple outlined how the XRP Ledger Lending Protocol would provide institutions with a novel way to structure loans directly on-chain.
A proposed XRPL standard would let institutions borrow against tokenized assets, with the blockchain enforcing loan terms while the underwriting stays with human credit teams. It still needs validator approval to go live.
Ripple's Brad Garlinghouse called Strategy's preferred-stock funding model "financial engineering" that distracted the market, pointing to STRC's slide to a record low as the evidence. He runs the company behind XRP, a bitcoin rival.
"Financial engineering does not drive long-term value ... long-term value of any digital asset is going to be driven by utility," said Garlinghouse.
Japan's financial regulator cleared the U.S. dollar-backed token as a new category of payment instrument, letting SBI VC Trade offer it to institutions and retail. RLUSD remains small, at about $1.7 billion.
Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin is available through SBI VC Trade for both institutional and retail users in the country.
The license will enable Ripple to offer its stablecoin payment systems to European companies and expand into broader crypto functions.
Ripple secures preliminary CASP approval in Luxembourg ahead of July 1 MiCA deadline as companies race for EU crypto licensing.