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The upgrade integrates custody, treasury automation and settlement tools as Ripple pushes deeper into institutional cross-border payments. 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 tie up capital and delay cross-border transactions. Read more

XRP falls again under $1.4. When will the downtrend end? Ripple (XRP) Price Predictions: Analysis Key support levels: $1 Key resistance levels: $1.4 XRP’s Downtrend Continues XRP made a brief attempt to hold the support at $1.4, but sellers returned and pushed the price lower, which turned this level into a key resistance. Hopefully, buyers […]

Trump administration officials held a similar event last week to discuss stablecoin yield within a market structure bill under consideration in Congress. Update (Feb. 19 at 7:21 pm UTC): This article has been updated to include a statement from the Crypto Council for Innovation. 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 to establish digital asset market structure. That meeting did not result in a deal on stablecoins.  Read more

CFTC chair Mike Selig launched the Innovation Advisory Committee in January, nominating 12 members as charter members before expanding the final list to 35 on Thursday. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has added a slew of crypto executives, including those from Coinbase and Ripple, to its Innovation Advisory Committee, who will shape how the regulator crafts policy. CFTC chair Mike Selig said on Thursday that the 35 members of the committee will “ensure the CFTC’s decisions reflect market realities” and enable it to “develop clear rules of the road for the Golden Age of American Financial Markets.” The committee launched in January, replacing the Technology Advisory Committee, which drew on the advice of tech leaders to dissect how new technologies were impacting the derivatives markets more broadly. Read more

Bitcoin is often seen as untouchable, the original force in crypto, rarely challenged on its fundamentals.But one of Ripple’s most well-known voices sees things differently.David Schwartz, CTO Emeritus and one of the original architects behind XRP, has called Bitcoin a technological dead end.He wasn’t criticizing the price, but the architecture.In a recent post, Schwartz argued […] The post XRP Price Prediction: Ripple’s Executive Criticises Bitcoin’s Technology – Can XRP Overtake BTC? appeared first on Cryptonews.

The U.K. asset manager teamed up with Ripple to bring traditional fund structures onchain in its first tokenization push.

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XRP supply and escrow unlocks: a guide to modeling 2026 net flows XRP supply in 2026 hinges on how much escrowed XRP Ripple chooses to distribute after monthly unlocks. The process is capped by the ledger, while market impact still depends on net flows and demand. According to the XRP Ledger, total supply is fixed […] The post The real drivers of XRP supply: A guide to understand Ripple’s monthly releases and what matters appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The new integrations enable banks and custodians to deploy custody and staking services without operating their own validator or key-management infrastructure. Ripple said on Monday it has expanded its institutional custody platform through new integrations with Securosys and Figment. The company said it is adding hardware security modules to enable banks and custodians to deploy custody services and offer staking without necessarily operating their own validator or key-management infrastructure. Building on Ripple’s recent acquisition of Palisade and the integration of Chainalysis compliance tools, the custody upgrades allow regulated institutions to manage cryptographic keys using on-premises or cloud-based HSMs and to offer staking on networks such as Ethereum (ETH) and Solana (SOL), with compliance checks embedded directly into transaction workflows. Read more

Ripple is working to make decentralized finance more familiar to regulated institutions and is placing XRP at the center of that effort. DeFi’s earlier growth cycles were built around open, retail-facing liquidity pools and the associated risk tolerance. Total value locked across major protocols climbed into the tens of billions of dollars and, at previous […] The post Ripple says compliance controls will unlock DeFi, but XRPL liquidity is still too thin to prove it appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Ripple and XRPL developers say recent mainnet upgrades and upcoming features position the XRP Ledger as a hub for regulated, real-world finance.

Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP have all retreated to deep cycle lows, dragging the broader crypto market back to valuation levels not seen since late 2024, according to CryptoSlate's data. While price action across the board appears uniformly grim, with BTC heading below $70,000 and XRP recently trading around $1.35, sentiment toward the Ripple-linked token is […] The post XRP defiant amid Bitcoin collapse as a massive institutional migration quietly shifts billions into Ripple appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Sui (SUI) joined Ripple (XRP) as an underperformer, falling 9.5% since Wednesday.

On Feb. 4, the XRP Ledger (XRPL) activated the highly anticipated Permissioned Domains with 91% validator approval. At first glance, the approval appears contradictory, as it involves a public blockchain hosting “permissioned” zones. However, a deeper look at the mechanics shows how the upgrade operates. Permissioned Domains introduces an on-ledger access-control object that enables other […] The post Ripple prepares to dominate the $24 billion RWA market by integrating controversial new permissioned layer appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Ripple made a big announcement yesterday, while the XRP ETFs are actually in the green - so, what's up with the price move today?

Ripple has been slated for MOEX crypto indices as the Moscow Exchange expands its derivatives lineups in 2026. The cash-settled futures, like existing BTC and ETH contracts, would reference published benchmarks and be limited to qualified investors under Bank of Russia rules, RBC reported in Russia. The post Moscow Exchange Plans Solana, Ripple and Tron Futures as Crypto Index Suite Expands appeared first on Cryptonews.

Ripple enters 2026 with new permissions in the UK and the EU. In January, Ripple said it received UK Financial Conduct Authority permissions covering an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) license and cryptoasset registration. On Feb. 2, it said it received full EMI approval in Luxembourg. But what does that really mean for XRP investors? Ripple’s […] The post The scorecard for an XRP investment thesis that separates Ripple licensing from XRPL utility signals appeared first on CryptoSlate.

A decade-old email is reviving questions about whether projects like Ripple posed a threat to Bitcoin’s development or merely served as competitors that some BTC backers sought to exclude. The email, dated July 31, 2014, appears to show Austin Hill, then described as Blockstream’s chief executive, telling the late Jeffrey Epstein and other recipients that […] The post Epstein files reveal Bitcoin’s secret war as Ripple insiders expose a decade of explosive hidden industry sabotage appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Ripple has pushed deeper into corporate finance with a new treasury platform that aims to let finance teams manage cash and digital assets in one system. The product, called Ripple Treasury, is built on treasury management software Ripple acquired in October 2025 when it bought GTreasury in a $1 billion deal. The new move represents […] The post Ripple’s billion dollar masterstroke forces 13,000 banks to rethink corporate cash while raising tough questions for XRP appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Built on Ripple’s GTreasury acquisition, the platform integrates cash management with blockchain settlement as digital assets gain a foothold on corporate balance sheets. 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 to shorten settlement times and reduce cross-border payment friction. Read more