Ripple’s Big Splash: Buying Rail for $200M & Pushing Stablecoins Like a Pro

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Well, hold onto your hats, folks! Ripple, that ever-so-ambitious crusader of the crypto cosmos, tossed a cool two hundred million bucks into the hat and pulled out Rail-yes, you heard that right, Rail, not the kind you get at a train station, but the stablecoin-powered payments platform. Rumor has it, the ink on the deal isn’t dry yet, with the big wig at Ripple predicting they’ll tie the knot in late 2025. Fancy that! 🤑🚂

Apparently, the master plan involves expanding their digital empire and creating what they charmingly call “the most comprehensive stablecoin payments solution” – a phrase that sounds as if it were plucked straight from a spy novel. They want folks to pay with stablecoins, both on and off the digital ramp, without the fuss of holding actual cryptos. It’s as if they’re saying, “Here, money that feels like money but isn’t necessarily.” Genius, really. 💡

And hold on to your monocles-by enabling payments through Ripple USD (RLUSD) and XRP, they’re planning to make third-party transactions, treasury flows, virtual accounts, collections and seamless 24/7 API magic just part of their daily brew. All with a sprinkle of “enterprise-grade compliance” and access to a multi-bank network. Well, if that isn’t the sort of thing that would make even the stoniest banker crack a smile, I don’t know what would. 🤓

The Rail boss, Bhanu Kohli, wasn’t shy to boast that Rail will handle over 10% of the globe’s stablecoin payments in 2025 – a market valued at a staggering $36 billion. Makes you wonder what they’ve been up to all these years, doesn’t it? 🌎💸

Ripple’s penchant for mergers and acquisitions is as subtle as a marching band-having already dropped around three billion dollars into various ventures, including snatching up the crypto-friendly prime broker Hidden Road for a cool 1.25 billion. Who needs modesty when you have that kind of cash? 💰🎩

When CryptoMoon dialed up Ripple for a chat, they might have been met with the sound of crickets, as silence was the response. Typical, eh? 🦗

Ripple Enters the Stablecoin Ballroom

This latest acquisition is just another chapter in Ripple’s grand adventure into the stablecoin jungle. Remember RLUSD? Launched late 2024 and championed by CEO Brad Garlinghouse, it’s aimed at big leaguers, not retail sprinters. But, surprise! Retail wallets like Xaman and dev platforms like Transak are starting to tango with RLUSD. Looks like the little stablecoin that could, eh? 😂

And as if that wasn’t enough, Ripple buddying up with exchanges like Uphold, Bitstamp, and MoonPay to spread the RLUSD gospel. It’s practically a stablecoin fiesta! 🎉

Playing the European Card & Beyond

In mid-July, Ripple threw its hat into the EU ring, aiming for a shiny new Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) license. They’re saying, “We want in,” and who could blame them? The European market is practically standing on tiptoes, waiting for Ripple’s arrival. Meanwhile, Dubai’s Financial Services Authority gave RLUSD a thumbs-up-because nothing says financial stability quite like Dubai, right? 🏙️🌍

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2025-08-07 18:28