Tagged: ripple

October 17, 2026 @ 1:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple has announced two significant developments that expand its role in institutional finance. On October 14, 2026, the company formed a partnership with DriveWealth, a brokerage-as-a-service platform that supplies infrastructure to more than 100 partners worldwide, including fintech firms, digital wallets, and financial institutions offering… Read More

October 16, 2026 @ 12:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe’s expanding role in both cryptocurrency infrastructure and artificial intelligence-driven shopping is drawing new connections between payments, digital assets, and automated agents. Recent developments include a partnership involving Stripe-owned Privy and Ripple to support embedded wallets on the XRP Ledger, continued efforts to link AI… Read More

October 12, 2026 @ 3:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The XRP Ledger has closed a critical integer-overflow vulnerability in its payment engine that had existed for roughly a decade and could have allowed an attacker to generate and spend new XRP in violation of the network’s fixed-supply rules. According to the official vulnerability disclosure… Read More

October 9, 2026 @ 5:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple’s institutional custody platform has added support for the Canton Network just as the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) moves closer to a broader tokenization service that includes Canton among eligible rails. The change, delivered in Ripple Custody version 1.43 and released on October… Read More

September 30, 2026 @ 8:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Brazil’s regulated capital markets have taken a notable step toward integrating public blockchain infrastructure. CSD BR, a licensed registrar, central securities depository and settlement system, has launched the first stage of a partnership with Ripple that places selected ownership records on the XRP Ledger while… Read More

September 22, 2026 @ 12:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Evernorth Holdings has arranged a $30 million convertible note facility intended to expand its XRP holdings and fund related work across the XRP Ledger ecosystem. The commitment was disclosed in a September 17, 2026 Form 8-K filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)…. Read More

September 17, 2026 @ 12:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Clearpool, a decentralized marketplace focused on on-chain institutional credit, has outlined plans to extend its lending stack to the XRP Ledger. The firm positions the move as its next growth chapter, arguing that XRPL is a mature network whose institutional credit market remains comparatively undeveloped…. Read More

September 16, 2026 @ 9:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The XRP Ledger is approaching a major payments upgrade after RippleX published a technical review of Batch V1.1, the rebuilt form of the XLS-56 amendment now under validator vote. The change would allow several transactions from different accounts to run together in one ledger close…. Read More

September 16, 2026 @ 8:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

London-based Velocity has added $10 million to its Series A, bringing the round to $48 million after a group of traditional finance and crypto investors joined the raise. Visa Ventures, Circle Ventures and Ripple participated alongside Haun Ventures, Translink Capital and Mirana Ventures, according to… Read More

September 2, 2026 @ 9:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

XRP advanced sharply in late August, rising from about $0.99 on August 17 to roughly $1.38 by August 31. That gain of nearly 40 percent arrived alongside a contraction in overall futures exposure, a combination that often signals traders were taking risk off rather than… Read More

August 31, 2026 @ 9:51 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Affirm (NASDAQ:AFRM), Shopify (NASDAQ:SHOP), Ripple, and Visa (NYSE:V) were among the companies announcing product features and partnerships this week. Affirm, Shopify announce Aussie installment feature Shop Pay Installments lets eligible shoppers split their purchases into fortnightly or monthly payments. Approved consumers can choose from interest-free or interest-bearing payment… Read More

August 30, 2026 @ 2:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple has expanded its institutional prime brokerage offering with the debut of a new Delta One desk inside Ripple Prime, giving professional investors another way to gain equity-linked exposure through total return swaps. The announcement, dated August 27, 2026 from San Francisco, positions the service… Read More

August 28, 2026 @ 5:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Evernorth Holdings, a firm built around holding and managing XRP for institutional investors, said this week that US regulators have declared its Form S-4 registration statement effective. That step removes a major filing hurdle and moves the company closer to a public listing on Nasdaq… Read More

August 21, 2026 @ 8:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple has teamed up with Clearpool and Cicada Partners to introduce real-world institutional lending capabilities on the XRP Ledger (XRPL). The collaboration aims to create on-chain credit markets that fund actual business needs rather than relying on typical decentralized finance yield strategies. The partners highlight… Read More

August 11, 2026 @ 2:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The XRP Ledger’s reference server software, xrpld version 3.3.0, is now available. This release packages several proposed protocol amendments focused on privacy, operational efficiency, and support for institutional use of Multi-Purpose Tokens (MPTs), the ledger’s standard for tokenized financial instruments such as funds and bonds…. Read More

August 2, 2026 @ 5:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The XRP Ledger is advancing toward its next core software release, xrpld version 3.3.0, expected in the coming week. This update will place five proposed amendments before network validators, expanding support for tokenized assets, institutional operations, privacy protections, and more flexible transaction handling. Two of… Read More

July 25, 2026 @ 9:37 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Ant’s $1.2 Billion Series A The financing supports expansion of its global payments and financial services business and positions the Alibaba-backed fintech unit for a potential future IPO. Participants included Ant Group and Alibaba Group. Parafin’s $300M forward-flow funding agreement Parafin recently surpassed 50,000 funded… Read More

July 6, 2026 @ 7:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple announced it has secured full authorization as a Crypto Asset Service Provider (CASP) from Luxembourg’s Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF). This approval completes the company’s compliance process under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation and enables its regulated crypto payments… Read More

June 29, 2026 @ 12:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Strategy Inc. (NASDAQ:MSTR), the prominent Bitcoin treasury company formerly known as MicroStrategy and led by Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, has experienced a notable compression in its valuation premium relative to its substantial Bitcoin holdings. The firm’s enterprise market-to-net-asset-value (mNAV) ratio has fallen below 1.0, meaning… Read More

June 25, 2026 @ 8:39 am By JD Alois  |  

Ripple shares that its dollar-based stablecoin $RLUSD is now available in Japan. The company said that the Japanese Financial Services Agency has approved the stablecoin. Ripple partnered with SBI Group and VCTRADE to gain approval. Ripple has worked with SBI Group since 2016. SBI Group… Read More