Category: XRP

The CEO of payments firm Ripple, Brad Garlinghouse, is speaking out on allegations made against him by a crypto whistleblower. The whistleblower known as Crypto Leaks alleged that attorney Kyle Roche had said that Garlinghouse was an angel investor in Roche Freedman – a law firm Roche focused on suing players in the crypto industry.

On-chain data reveals that an XRP whale transferred more than $160 million worth of XRP from a top crypto exchange. According to blockchain tracker Whale Alert, XRP valued at approximately $161.2 million was moved from crypto exchange Kraken to an unknown wallet. “500,000,000 XRP (161,221,368 USD) transferred from Kraken to unknown wallet.” The transaction cost

Crypto attorney John Deaton is looking at the former Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for the lack of regulatory clarity in the digital asset industry. John Deaton is calling out Jay Clayton after the former SEC Chair wrote an article in the Wall Street Journal about crypto regulation. In Clayton’s article,

Attorney and XRP supporter John Deaton believes new evidence will be revealed in the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission’s lawsuit against Ripple. The SEC filed its lawsuit against Ripple Labs in late December 2020, declaring XRP a security and accusing the San Francisco payments company of selling the crypto asset without proper authorization. Deaton represents

Blockchain analytics firm Santiment says XRP whales printed a three-month high in network activity as the token continues to weather low prices. According to the firm, transactions exceeding $100,000 on the XRP ledger suddenly skyrocketed to levels not seen since May. “XRP is seeing notable whale activity, as well as high optimism, in Friday’s closing

Payments platform Ripple Labs is teaming up with Travelex Bank in Brazil to bring XRP-based remittances to the seventh most populous nation in the world. According to a new press release, the San Francisco-based firm says that the partnership makes Travelex the first bank in Latin America to utilize RippleNet’s On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) protocol. ODL

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is doubling down on its bid to block Ripple Labs from obtaining critical evidence in the lawsuit filed against the payments firm alleging they sold XRP as an unregistered security. In a recent court filing, the SEC says that it is offering more support to its earlier objection

San Francisco payments firm Ripple is reportedly interested in buying assets from bankrupt crypto lending platform Celsius. According to a report from Reuters, a spokesperson for Ripple said that the company was looking to see if there was any synergy between it and Celsius’ assets. The spokesperson declined to say whether Ripple wanted to acquire