Ripple’s IPO Snub: A Tale of Wealth, Wit, and Stablecoins 🤑

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Ah, Ripple, the enigmatic titan of the crypto realm, has decided that the public markets are but a plebeian’s playground. 🌟 With XRP lingering at a modest $2.25, and a 24-hour volatility of 5.2%, one might expect a scramble for stability. Yet, Ripple stands firm, its $136.45 billion market cap gleaming like a tsar’s crown. 🪙

President Monica Long, with the poise of a Tolstoy heroine, declared on January 6 that Ripple shall remain private. “Why dance in the public’s gaze,” she mused, “when our coffers overflow with $500 million raised in November 2025 at a $40 billion valuation? Our balance sheet is as robust as a Russian winter, and we shun the burdens of disclosure like a nobleman avoids taxes.” 😏

Meanwhile, XRP, ever the dramatic protagonist, plummeted 5% in 24 hours, despite $19 million in ETF inflows. And just as the plot thickened, WisdomTree Digital Commodity Services, with the grace of a retreating army, withdrew its plans for a spot XRP ETF. 🌪️

The Strong Balance Sheet: A Fortress Against Folly

Long, in an interview with Bloomberg, waxed philosophical: “Why list, when we already have the liquidity of a summer rain and investors as loyal as a Tolstoy family retainer? Fortress Investment Group, Citadel Securities, and crypto funds of great repute have already pledged their fealty.” 🏰

Ripple, ever the strategist, completed a $1 billion tender offer in 2025, repurchasing 25% of its shares. “Why go public,” Long quipped, “when we can provide liquidity to early shareholders without the theatrics of a listing?” 🎭

Instead of courting public markets, Ripple spent 2025 on a shopping spree, acquiring $4 billion worth of companies. Hidden Road, GTreasury, Rail, and Palisade-all fell into Ripple’s embrace, with Hidden Road alone costing a princely $1.25 billion. Yet, Long assures us, the acquisition frenzy shall slow in 2026. 🛒

Payments and Stablecoins: The New Nobility

Ripple Payments, the stalwart of the financial realm, processed over $95 billion in volume by late 2025. RLUSD, Ripple’s dollar stablecoin, achieved a $1 billion market cap in just seven months, becoming the cornerstone of payments and treasury products. 🏦

Swell 2025: We have closed a $500 million strategic investment at a $40 billion valuation, led by Fortress Investment Group and Citadel Securities:

→ $95B+ in total Ripple Payments payment volume → $1B+ $RLUSD stablecoin market cap → 6 strategic…

– Ripple (@Ripple) November 5, 2025

Ripple now ventures deeper into institutional waters, exploring collateralized lending, stablecoin settlement, and XRP-based liquidity. “We are building the infrastructure,” Long proclaimed, “that traditional finance needs to embrace digital assets with the fervor of a Tolstoy novel.” 📜

The XRP Ledger, too, has flourished, becoming one of the top 10 blockchains for RWA activity. RippleX Developers, in a series of tweets, boasted: “XRP is the digital asset of choice for real-world utility-from stablecoin settlement to institutional payments.” 🌍

XRP is a digital asset of choice for real-world utility – from stablecoin settlement to real-world assets, to institutional payments.

With new momentum around XRP ETFs and institutional treasuries forming, here are some updated FAST FACTS about XRP. 🧵⬇️

– RippleX (@RippleXDev) January 6, 2026

Issuers such as Ondo Finance, OpenEden, Archax, Guggenheim Treasury Services, Mercado Bitcoin, VERT, and the Dubai Land Department are now flocking to the XRP Ledger, like characters to a Tolstoy ball. 🎩

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2026-01-07 17:01