“I’m not selling,” Makoto, a Japanese businessman and XRP investor, told CoinDesk. Makoto first bought the digital token XRP in 2017, a year after its issuer, San Francisco-based Ripple Labs, launched a joint venture with one of Japan’s most...
Michael S. Barr, a former U.S. Treasury Department official and onetime member of Ripple’s board of advisers, is likely to become the next Comptroller of the Currency, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. If named and confirmed by the...
XRP has had an extremely difficult run since 2017 and things have only turned worse. But somehow despite the poor performance compared to its peers, it has managed to hold onto a top five rank by market cap dating...
Ripple has inked a deal with a Malaysian money transfer business and Bangladesh’s largest mobile financial services provider to enable a remittance corridor between the two countries. According to an announcement Tuesday, Malaysia’s Mobile Money and Bangladesh’s bKash will...
Grayscale Investments, the world’s largest digital currency asset manager, announced it has begun dissolution of its Grayscale XRP Trust following the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s lawsuit against Ripple Labs alleging the XRP token is a security under federal...
XRP’s double-digit gains could be the result of a bold bet by retail investors, especially those in Asia, that the cryptocurrency’s price could follow the broader crypto bull run. The latest rally surprised many because it is happening not...
Ripple tried to settle charges of conducting unregistered securities transactions with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) before the federal regulator sued it in December, CEO Brad Garlinghouse said Wednesday. In a Twitter thread, Garlinghouse addressed what he...
XRP is shrugging off its recent price woes with a double-digit rise Thursday. The cryptocurrency was trading near $0.35 soon before press time, representing a nearly 50% gain on a 24-hour basis. As a result, XRP‘s market capitalization has...
Digital asset manager Grayscale Investments is following Bitwise’s footsteps in removing XRP from its large-cap crypto fund. The firm, which is owned by CoinDesk parent company Digital Currency Group, announced Tuesday it would no longer hold XRP in the...
Just weeks ago, XRP was outperforming Bitcoin, and everything Ripple related was coming up roses. However, less than 10 days ago, all of that came crashing to an abrupt end. It emerged that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission...