Bitnomial launches first XRP futures in U.S. after SEC drops Ripple case

Crypto derivatives exchange Bitnomial has officially launched its XRP futures contract following the latest developments in the Ripple case. On March 19, 2025, Ripple chief executive officer Brad Garlinghouse announced that the U.

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‘Definition Of Insanity’ — Ripple CEO Asserts As SEC Seeks Reversal On XRP Non-Security Classification

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Ripple CTO Addresses Smart Contract Controversy

Ripple CTO David Schwartz has responded to the CEO of XRP Labs

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XRP Ledger Developer Flays Ripple Over Smart Contract Pivot

Is trouble looming in Ripple and XRP Ledger ecosystem?

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Ripple Cofounder Celebrates Major Stellar (XLM) Success

Stellar's Soroban smart contract launch earns accolades from Ripple cofounder Jed McCaleb

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The Dilemma Of Distributing Tokens On XRP Ledger: Ripple CTO Chimes In

Xahau, a new smart contract sidechain, is set to launch, and as part of efforts to boost interoperability between the XRP Ledger and Xahau, the Chief Technology Officer of XRPL Labs, Richard AH, has proposed making an amendment to XRPL’s mainnet.

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Judge grants SEC request to file appeal in Ripple case

Judge Analisa Torres has allowed SEC to file an appeal against July 13 ruling on XRP. SEC to file by August 18 and Ripple to respond by September 1. The latest Ripple news is that Judge Analisa Torres, who ruled in July that public sales of XRP did not constitute an investment contract and thus […] The post Judge grants SEC request to file appeal in Ripple case appeared first on CoinJournal.

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Ripple Unveils Video Demo of EVM Sidechain That Could Disrupt Ethereum’s Smart Contract Lead

Ripple, the company behind the fifth-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, has joined forces with Peersyst to unveil the first XRPL (XRP Ledger) sidechain with Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) compatibility.

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XRP Sold on Exchange Declared Not an Investment Contract

Ripple Labs Inc., the blockchain-based payment protocol company, has won a significant legal battle against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In a case that has been closely monitored...

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Judge rules Ripple’s XRP programmatic sales ‘not securities’; XRP up 28%

Judge Analisa Torres ruled that Ripple’s sale of XRP to the general public and its distributions of the token do not constitute an offer and sale of an investment contract. These include “Programmatic sales,” where XRP was offered to public buyers, and “Other Distributions,” where people were given XRP for free.

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Ripple lawyer claims SEC is ‘exploiting legal uncertainty’ to redefine securities laws

CryptoLaw founder and Ripple lawyer John Deaton said the SEC is “exploiting the legal uncertainty about crypto” to redefine what should be considered a security under the Howey test. Deaton believes that the regulator’s litigation against crypto companies “pushes the boundaries” of what constitutes an investment contract and a common enterprise in the U.

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Relist XRP On Coinbase Trends Again, Here’s Why

XRP community attorney John E. Deaton, who is representing the holders of the token in the lawsuit between Ripple and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has outlined in a new Twitter thread why the definitions of “investment” and a “contract” are fundamental to the district court’s ruling. Paul Grewal, the Chief Legal Officer […]

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Ripple Rival Stellar (XLM) to Give Out Millions of Dollars to Developers, Here's Why

Stellar Development Foundation creates multimillion fund to boost new smart contract platform

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Why Pro-Ripple Lawyer Says XRP Can’t Be Classed As A Security Even If It Was Sold As One

U.S. Attorney John Deaton has explained in-depth why the XRP cryptocurrency cannot be classified as a security even if blockchain payments company Ripple sold it to the public as an investment contract.

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Ripple Wants to Bring Ethereum Smart Contracts to the XRP Ledger

Ripple announced that it is bringing Ethereum smart contract to the XRP ledger, stating its timeline. But this didn't affect the price of XRP.

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SEC Wants to ‘Remake the Law,’ Rather Than ‘Apply it,’ Says Ripple General Counsel

After two years of ongoing litigation, Stuart Alderoty, general counsel at Ripple, joined CoinDesk TV’s “First Mover” to discuss why it could mark “the beginning of the end,” as the SEC’s efforts to identify any contract of investment appear to have fallen short.

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Ripple, SEC case heads for conclusion after ‘summary judgment’ filed

Ripple argued that XRP profits came from “market forces of supply and demand” rather than any contract between Ripple and XRP tokenholders.

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Ripple Optimistic of a Speedy Resolution of MoneyGram Tiff

Ripple has released a statement after MoneyGram stepped back from its partnership with the blockchain ledger provider because of woes with the Securities and Exchange Commission. MoneyGram-Ripple Partnership Ripple has stated that they made a multi-year contract in 2019 with MoneyGram, which is still in place and is not limited to their use of ODL.Read More

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Ripple Anticipates Resumption of MoneyGram Partnership

Ripple claims its multi-year contract with MoneyGram is still in place

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Ripple (XRP) price explodes 40%, here is where it may go next

Ripple (XRP) price exploded more than 40% yesterday to record the biggest weekly gains in more than 2 years.   Fundamental analysis: New smart contract feature “Hooks” launched on XRP Ripple team has been trying to find new use cases for XRP and has started collaborating with Flare Networks to execute Ethereum’s smart contracts on the XRP ledger.

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Ripple ledger gets a new smart contract feature — “Hooks”

Ripple, a Californian crypto startup, managed to make impressive progress when it comes to partnering up with banks and financial institutions and getting them to use its coin for international transactions.

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Ripple Scores More Points As World’s Best Sonic Player Inks Contract To Be Paid In XRP

For years, Ripple has been working to expand its network of allies and business partners across the world, with obvious behind-the-scenes efforts to drum up support for XRP and drive the crypto to mass adoption.

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Ripple Wins US Patent for New Oracle-Based Smart Contract Design

Ripple's patented design would allow derivatives to settle based on external information – such as temperature data.

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Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse Praises Flare Network, Says It Combines Best of XRP, ETH, AVAX

Coinspeaker Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse Praises Flare Network, Says It Combines Best of XRP, ETH, AVAXRipple CEO says that Flare combines the best technological features of Ethereum and Avalance and serves as a smart contract platform for XRP.

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Ripple-Backed Platform Flare Set To Revolutionize The XRP Ecosystem With Smart Contracts

Ripple’s associate, Flare Networks, has recently launched a public test network known as Coston. This test network is a huge step toward enabling smart contract functionality on the XRP ledger. Enabling Smart Contracts On The XRP Ledger Smart contracts were first proposed by computer scientist Nick Szabo back in 1996. Over the years, the concept […]

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CoinEx launches Ripple (XRP) perpetual contract

CoinEx, a bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchange company building their own blockchain, announced today the launch of a Ripple (XRP) USD perpetual. This is the sixth perpetual contract now available and will be listed on February 14.

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Ripple Co-founder's XRP sales revealed; latest January sale included 9M XRP

Ripple's Co-founder Jed McCaleb bowed out of Ripple in 2013, following which he signed a contract with the company to establish how much of his assets McCaleb can sell. McCaleb claimed to own 9 billioThe post Ripple Co-founder's XRP sales revealed; latest January sale included 9M XRP appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Ripple’s XRP Is Dogsh*t Says BitMEX CEO

February 5 should have been an exciting day for Ripple as behemoth derivatives exchange BitMEX adds a new perpetual swap contract for its XRP token. But while BitMEX is “proud” to announce the new trading pair, CEO Arthur Hayes calls XRP “dogsh*t” on socials.

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BitMEX to launch new XRPUSD swap; delists UP & DOWN contracts

BitMEX, the popular cryptocurrency derivatives exchange, today announced the launch of a new Ripple USD (XRPUSD) quanto swap, set to be listed on Wednesday, February, 5th 2020. More details on this contract will be available on testnet by Friday, January, 24th, 2020.

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Binance Futures Launches XRP/USDT Perpetual Contracts; Skeptics Cry Insider Trading

Binance Futures, the futures trading platform of Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange Binance recently added a perpetual contract for Ripple’s XRP digital currency to its list of offerings. The exchange made the announcement on January 6, 2020.

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XRP Insider Trading Seen After Binance Adds Futures

Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange Binance has just added Ripple’s XRP cryptocurrency to its futures trading platform. According to an announcement made by Binance earlier today, XRP is now available to trade as a perpetual futures contract on the Binance Futures exchange.

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Ripple расширит функциональность XRP смарт-контрактами от Flare Networks

Входящее в состав Ripple инвестиционное подразделение Xpring поддержало проект Flare Network, который добавит смарт-контракты в сеть XRP. Announcing our investment in @FlareNetworks, which enables smart contract capability for #XRPLedger and furthers our vision to provide a seamless experience for #XRP users — read more here: https://t.

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Ripple’s Xpring Invests in New Smart Contract Platform

Xpring has made an investment into smart contract platform Flare Networks

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Samsung Pay Money Transfer Operator Sentbe Partners with Ripple & MoneyGram

Ripple and its latest partner MoneyGram both added a new partner to their list, Sentbe. The global money transfer and payment company signed a contract with the South Korean fintech company Sentbe on July 19.

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Bitcoin bulls swing price of its fork coins and Ripple’s XRP

The latest surge propelled by an increase in Bitcoin futures contract drove the cryptocurrency market to post gains this week, with digital currencies breaching previously set resistances. At press time, the collective market cap stood at $326.

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Ripple Insights on Why Blockchain Needs to be More Than Just a Technology with ‘Potential’…

Many of our readers may have heard people saying that the blockchain industry has a lot of potential and that moving forward, peer-to-peer payment systems and smart contract solutions based on this technology could help rid the world of large banking conglomerates and other centralized institutions. However, as things stand, we only have a handful […]

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Ripple incubator Xpring invests in smart contract platform Agoric

CryptoNinjas It was announced yesterday that smart contract platform Agoric received an investment from Ripple incubator Xpring. Agoric is developing a secure distributed ocap platform for smart contracts and market-oriented programming.

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Ripple XRP Says The Revolution Will Be Televised – What Revolution?

Ripple’s regular movement of funds from its escrow wallet to a hot wallet is always noted by crypto whale watchers, such as Whale Alert, which tracks large movements of coins. Ripple conducts a transfer at the beginning of every month and usually returns a large portion of XRP back to escrow.

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Ripple Labs and Stellar’s Jed McCaleb May Have New XRP Deal in Place

Ripple Labs co-founder, Jed McCaleb is said to be in possession of a huge amount of XRP – Ripple’s cryptocurrency coin. It was reported that he had about 9 billion XRP in 2013 after leaving Ripple Labs as payment for establishing the company, Ripple Labs. Breach of Contract It was reported that in 2014, a […]

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Litecoin (LTC), EOS (EOS) and IOTA (MIOTA) Attempt to Follow Ethereum (ETH) Surge: Price Increase Day

Ethereum ETH against the US Dollar has taken the highroad showcasing for a couple of days a strong will from the community to overcome XRP‘s market capitalization and increase the token’s price.

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2018: The Year of Breakthroughs in Blockchain

As 2018 draws to a close, many are focusing on the challenges that lie ahead. The digital asset markets are down, and we’ve seen the industry contract as a result. But, the outlook may not be so bleak.

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OKCoin Adds the Argentine Peso as It Eyes Expansion Into Latin America

Despite a prolonged cryptocurrency bear market and regulatory uncertainties, OKCoin, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, is expanding to Latin America launching a new exchange platform headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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R3, Ripple Settle Legal Dispute Over XRP Purchase Option

Blockchain startups Ripple and R3 have resolved a legal battle that saw both firms filing suits in the U.S. over a contract dispute.

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Crypto Facilities Derivatives Exchange Opens Perpetual Inverse Futures For 6 Coins

UK based crypto derivatives exchange, Crypto Facilities has today declared the launch of perpetual facilities for some six supported Cryptocurrencies through its twitter page. The 6 supported assets according to the release include, Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Ripple (XRP) and Litecoin (LTC).

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U.K.-Based Crypto Facilities Adds Bitcoin Cash Futures to Its Offerings

U. K. -based cryptocurrency futures exchange Crypto Facilities, which is regulated by the U. K. Financial Conduct Authority, is adding a bitcoin cash product to its offerings, a press release shared on the exchange’s website reveals.

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Ripple engineer says, InterLedger Protocol can “pay for a milliliter of beer”

Ripple engineer Evan Schwartz, the Co-Creator of the InterLedger Protocol [ILP] and smart contract platform Codius, spoke at the CSAIL Initiative Launch Webcast recently. He elaborated upon the role that the InterLedger Protocol played in realizing the Internet of Value [IoV].

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‘Banks are in Fear of being Disrupted by New Technology,’ Says Ripple’s new CTO

The Ripple company recently promoted David Schwartz from being the company’s Chief Cryptographer to the firms Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Schwartz replaces Stefan Thomas who now currently runs Coil and the Codius smart contract platform.

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A Nuanced Look At Crypto Assets as Securities In Light of SEC Comments

On June 14, 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) director of corporate finance made waves in the cryptocurrency space when he commented at Yahoo Finance’s All Market Summit: Crypto that ether is not a security.

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