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Ripple Labs is a blockchain payments company that created the XRP cryptocurrency and provides cross-border settlement infrastructure for banks.
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Absa, Africa's first bank to offer Bitcoin custody, says Bitcoin is most of what its institutional platform holds. The book draws on South Africa's stock of crypto assets, a small fraction of the value that moves through the country in a year.
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XRP Asia, backed by Ripple and the XRP Ledger Foundation, launched in Singapore on Oct. 3 to connect Asia-Pacific XRPL builders with grants and partners. The grants it points to are Ripple's older programs, and the best documented of them offered up to $200,000 per Japanese project starting in June 2025.
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XRP Ledger x402 payments ran at about 525,000 a day over the latest week, taking the total from 1 million in July to 11,965,947 by Oct. 3. The count shows software paying for services at volume, but it is a tally of payments published without a dollar value.
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XRP Ledger's Batch amendment has 30 of 35 trusted validators behind it and a projected Oct. 9 start for bundles of up to eight transactions. Bundles cost more in fees than separate sends, and a security fix due that morning forces server operators to update.
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The Linux Foundation named payments executive Michael Hursta to run the 50-plus-member x402 Foundation on October 1, 2026. A vendor's post says conformance still means only a valid signature, so agent teams have to write their own approval logic.
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Armada Acquisition Corp. II shareholders approved the Evernorth merger, so a 473 million XRP treasury lists on Nasdaq as XRPN on Oct. 8. Only about $300 million of the $1 billion-plus raised is cash, and investors contributed XRP directly for much of the rest.
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MoonPay is pursuing stablecoin, remittance and payments work with KB Financial, Woori Bank and KakaoBank after opening a Korean entity in September. Its one-vendor pitch faces three other global entrants and four Korean firms, most of them selling banks a single layer of the stack.
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Trump is expected to join crypto, prediction market and AI executives on the 19th, with CME, Nasdaq, ICE and DTCC also invited. The CFTC's new advisory committee meets the next day.
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Korea's regulators sorted crypto into plumbing and wagering, approving a bank remittance rail while cutting off a prediction market. XRP fell below $1 anyway.
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Effectiveness clears a disclosure hurdle, and the harder question is whether investors still pay above book for a company whose main job is holding one token, when Galaxy says that premium has already gone.
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The crypto super PAC is spending $30 million in Ohio over six weeks, about a quarter of the $120.4 million it and its affiliates reported on September 20. The target is a Senate Banking gavel that Democratic caucus rules do not automatically restore.
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SBI Digital Practice sent a yen-linked test token to Kyobo Life and it arrived as a won-linked one, with no dollar in between. The run happened in a Canton test environment between two companies SBI Holdings part-owns.
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Teucrium's 2x inverse XRP fund is now due to go effective on October 11, 2026, 628 days after its initial registration, and the leveraged long version it mirrors has been trading since April 2025. No reason for the holdup has been stated.
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Ripple's $1 billion purchase of GTreasury put RLUSD on the dashboards of more than 1,000 corporate treasuries in April, and the constraint has moved from distribution to how fast the coin's float can turn.
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Warren Jenson, who has been finance chief at Amazon, Delta Air Lines and Electronic Arts, takes over capital strategy at a company that has published no audited numbers and paid $112m for its way back into the United States.
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Chris Larsen gave the SFPD $9.4 million for its real-time crime centre and now says opposition to plate readers has grown huge in two years. Cities are switching cameras off, which makes retention the live term.
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Builders Bank & Trust would custody bitcoin and stablecoins under one federal supervisor instead of fifty state ones. That is worth paying for. But 23 of the OCC's last 40 applications want much the same thing.
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The XRP Ledger's 8 million funded accounts are the headline, but the number carrying the institutional argument is an $85,000 average transfer, and Crypto Briefing prints it as a range with no median beside it.
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Ripple's stablecoin now keeps 56.1% of its $2.37B supply on Ethereum, where one lending market's $330M balance explains the chain split better than the 69,000 wallets holding the XRP Ledger side.
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The $1 billion mark is the least informative number in this round. SBI's own statement points at warrants, equity-method consolidation and a remittance business that needs cheaper settlement.
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