Massive Ripple $1.25b acquisition

#1 · April 8, 2025, 12:20 pm

Today, @Ripple announced the acquisition of Hidden Road for $1.25B, one of the largest deals ever in the crypto space. But the price tag isn’t what’s most important – it’s that this deal marks a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for crypto to access the largest and most trusted…

— Brad Garlinghouse (@bgarlinghouse) April 8, 2025

#2 · April 8, 2025, 12:28 pm

Ripple’s acquisition of Hidden Road is a defining moment for the XRP Ledger and XRP. The prime broker clears upwards of $10B and processes over 50M transactions a day on various traditional rails, waiting up to 24 hours for those transactions to settle. Now imagine even a portion… https://t.co/xiHdyy30Sm

— David "JoelKatz" Schwartz (@JoelKatz) April 8, 2025

#3 · April 9, 2025, 2:16 am

And Ripple President Monica Long on the deal:

There will be much more to say in the weeks ahead about what was once a hypothetical, and is now reality.

The fundamental tenets of what both Ripple and Hidden Road are trying to do are the same – build better financial infrastructure for global movement of value than the walled gardens, fragmented rails and monolithic entities of the past. Decentralized finance thus far has been… https://t.co/AlP1mqEHyi

— Monica Long (@MonicaLongSF) April 8, 2025

#4 · April 9, 2025, 2:27 am

Here’s the explainer thread how the acquisition can supercharge Ripple, XRP and RLUSD:

How will the Hidden Road acquisition supercharge @Ripple, XRPL and RLUSD?

"What was once a hypothetical, and is now reality," says Ripple President @MonicaLongSF

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— xrp chat (@itsxrpchat) April 9, 2025