CLARITY Act: Two Weeks Left, Odds Fall to 30%
Galaxy Research cut its probability of the CLARITY Act becoming law in 2026 to 30%, down from 50% in late June, as the Senate faces a two-week window before its August recess. Seven Democratic...
Tagged: Garlinghouse
Ripple Nearly Dissolved After SEC Sued in 2020
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has revealed that he and co-founder Chris Larsen seriously considered shutting the company down entirely after the SEC filed its lawsuit in December 2020. The plan was straightforward: distribute Ripple’s...
XRP at $1: Liquidations, ETF Inflows, Garlinghouse
XRP touched $1.00 this week before recovering to $1.047, a move that triggered an 832% spike in long liquidations and forced a hard reset across the derivatives market. The episode arrived alongside a notable...
XRP Eyes AI Rails While ETF Streak Holds at Five Weeks
XRP spot ETFs have now recorded positive inflows for five consecutive weeks, even as Bitcoin and Ethereum ETF products logged negative flows across the same period. That institutional resilience, combined with Ripple’s launch of...
Wrapped XRP Launches on Solana With $100M Liquidity as Ripple Eyes Institutional Era
Wrapped XRP is now live on Solana, backed 1:1 by custodian Hex Trust and bridged via LayerZero’s OFT standard, with over $100 million in opening liquidity deployed across Jupiter, Phantom, and Meteora. The deployment,...
Ripple’s Four-Phase Quantum Roadmap Targets XRPL Security by 2028
Ripple published a four-phase roadmap on April 20 to make the XRP Ledger quantum-resistant by 2028, responding directly to Google Quantum AI research warning that classical blockchain cryptography is more vulnerable than previously estimated....
XRP Reaches 44M Rakuten Users, Futures Spike 294%, and CLARITY Act Nears May Vote
XRP is embedded into Rakuten’s payments stack as of April 15, giving the token direct access to 44 million Rakuten Pay users and over 5 million merchant locations across Japan. That consumer-scale integration arrived...
Ripple Treasury Embeds XRP and RLUSD Into Corporate Finance as Garlinghouse Claps Back at Avalanche
Ripple launched Digital Asset Accounts and Unified Treasury on April 1, making it the first treasury management system to embed native XRP and RLUSD capabilities directly into enterprise corporate finance workflows. The product, built...
XRP Ledger Hits 120 TPS as Whale Buying and April Data Build Breakout Case
XRP Ledger throughput reached 120 transactions per second on March 28, driven by a spike in decentralized exchange activity that pushed individual block sizes to 600–700 transactions. The price move has not matched the...
XRP Ecosystem Expansion: Ripple Institutional Strategy, XRPL Options Sidechain And Futures Surge
Ripple’s institutional expansion strategy is advancing on multiple fronts even as XRP trades at $1.35, down 3.3% in the past 24 hours, amid geopolitical turbulence and fading ETF momentum. The confluence of new product...