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Ripple Expands Institutional Stablecoin Payments Platform

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Ripple is expanding its stablecoin payments platform for banks and fintechs, aiming to reduce the need to park money overseas and speed up cross-border transactions. Ripple Payments, the company’s global payments platform that connects financial institutions to blockchain-based settlement rails, has been upgraded to support a broader stablecoin workflow, including collection, custody, conversion and payout, the San Francisco-based company announced Tuesday.  The move positions Ripple to compete more directly with legacy payment providers, as it is designed to reduce reliance on pre-funded accounts and traditional correspondent banking networks, which can…

Ripple upgrades its payments platform, integrating custody, liquidity, and automated payout capabilities

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Ripple is expanding Ripple Payments into a fully integrated solution that supports fiat and stablecoin collection, custody, liquidity, and payout workflows across global regulated markets, the company announced Tuesday. The upgrade integrates capabilities from the company’s recent acquisitions of Palisade and Rail to enable virtual accounts, automated payment flows, managed custody, and consolidated settlement. This allows enterprise clients to collect, hold, convert, and distribute funds through a single unified interface, as noted by the team. Ripple’s President Monica Long said that the expansion supports their effort to deliver trusted, licensed…

Ripple CEO Confirms White House Meeting between Crypto, Banking Reps

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The White House has held another meeting between representatives from the cryptocurrency and banking industries on a market structure bill under consideration in the US Senate, seeking to iron-out differences on stablecoin yield provisions, among other issues. In a Thursday Fox News interview, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said that the company’s chief legal officer, Stuart Alderoty, attended the meeting with White House officials earlier in the day. The CEO’s comments came after unconfirmed reports that the Trump administration would follow its Feb. 10 meeting on the CLARITY Act, a bill…

Ripple partners with major asset manager Aviva Investors to tokenize traditional funds on XRP Ledger

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Ripple, the blockchain firm behind the XRP Ledger, is teaming up with Aviva Investors to bring traditional investment funds onchain through tokenization, the companies announced Wednesday. Aviva Investors, the asset management arm of British insurer Aviva Plc, will use the XRP Ledger’s infrastructure to convert conventional fund products into digital tokens. The deal marks Ripple’s first such arrangement with a European money manager. Details of the collaboration will be shared at XRP Community Day today, where Markus Infanger, an XRPL ecosystem advocate, and Aviva’s Alastair Sewell are scheduled to speak.…

Ripple to host XRP Community Day 2026 tomorrow with Grayscale, Gemini, and ecosystem leadership

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Ripple will host XRP Community Day 2026 tomorrow, bringing together XRP holders, builders, financial institutions, and Ripple leadership for a global virtual event focused on real-world adoption and the future of the XRP Ledger (XRPL) ecosystem. Returning for its second year, the event spotlights how XRP is actively used today while looking ahead to what’s next. It will explore topics like regulated products, DeFi applications, wrapped XRP, and next-generation XRPL infrastructure, Ripple shared in a recent press release. Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse, President Monica Long, and ecosystem partners will share…

Ripple integrates Hyperliquid to expand institutional DeFi access

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Ripple announced Wednesday that its institutional platform, Ripple Prime, now supports Hyperliquid, providing clients with access to the leading decentralized derivatives protocol. The move marks Ripple Prime’s first DeFi expansion since the platform’s creation following Ripple’s $1.25 billion acquisition of Hidden Road. With this integration, institutional clients can now access onchain derivatives liquidity through Hyperliquid while cross-margining DeFi exposures with other asset classes supported by Ripple Prime, including digital assets, FX, fixed income, OTC swaps, and cleared derivatives. “At Ripple Prime, we are excited to continue leading the way in…

Ripple Enters Corporate Treasury Market with GTreasury-based Platform

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Ripple has expanded its push into enterprise finance with the launch of a corporate treasury platform that combines traditional cash management tools with digital asset infrastructure. According to a blog post on Tuesday, the platform combines GTreasury’s treasury management software with Ripple’s blockchain and stablecoin rails, allowing companies to manage cash, payments and liquidity from a single system while maintaining existing controls and workflows. Ripple said the platform is designed to address common treasury pain points such as multi-day settlement cycles and limited visibility across accounts, using digital asset infrastructure…

Crypto PAC Reports $193M after Donations from Ripple, Coinbase, a16z

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Crypto-backed political action committees (PACs) are gearing up for the 2026 US midterm elections, with industry-funded groups signaling plans to expand their influence as debates over digital asset regulation intensify on Capitol Hill. Fairshake, the cryptocurrency industry-backed PAC, disclosed on Wednesday holding $193 million in cash on hand ahead of this year’s US midterm elections. In an announcement shared with Cointelegraph, Fairshake spokesperson Josh Vlasto said the PAC had received $25 million from Ripple Labs and $24 million from a16z in addition to a $25 million contribution from cryptocurrency exchange…

Ripple wins appeal in long-running XRP unregistered securities litigation

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A class action lawsuit challenging Ripple Labs’ sale of XRP tokens as unregistered securities will not proceed after the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals this week upheld a lower court’s dismissal of the case. The court’s decision was first reported by Law360. Filed in 2018, the lawsuit claims that Ripple Labs unlawfully sold XRP tokens as unregistered securities. Lead plaintiff Bradley Sostack argued that Ripple’s sales activity, including a large distribution of tokens in 2017, breached the Securities Act of 1933. The case was dismissed in June 2024 when Judge…

Here’s How Much XRP Ripple Execs Have Dumped So Far

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For over a decade, Ripple and its executives have been steadily dumping XRP into the open market. Because XRP was fully created at launch, every token sold came from a known and finite supply. By comparing the original allocations from 2012 with current on-chain holdings, it is now possible to calculate how much XRP Ripple and its executives have offloaded so far.  How XRP Was Allocated And Where The Tokens Went XRP was launched in 2012 with a fixed supply of 100 billion XRP, all created at once on the…