Ah, behold the tumultuous tale of Ripple, a veritable microcosm of human strife and ambition! The year 2024, my dear readers, witnessed the grand spectacle of the US presidential elections, a moment when the singularly eccentric Donald Trump, that paragon of idiosyncrasy, clawed his way back to power in early 2025. His campaign-a veritable carnival of promises to the crypto enthusiasts-echoed with vows to obliterate the bureaucratic figurehead, Gary Gensler, a name synonymous with the unending persecution of the industry and, in particular, Ripple.
Indeed, as the tides of fate began to ebb and flow in favor of those ambitious souls at Ripple, the figurehead Brad Garlinghouse emerged from the shadows, like a modern-day Prometheus, free at last from the chains of litigation. How masterfully he acknowledged his enterprise’s recent ventures before the vast digital amphitheater known as X! The man is practically a bard of the blockchain.
With the consummation of the Hidden Road acquisition (now dubbed Ripple Prime), we’ve seen five delightful acquisitions dance before our very eyes in roughly two revolutions of the calendar (consider GTreasury, Rail, Standard Custody, and the ever-elusive Metaco). Pray, as we forge solutions for an Internet of Value, allow me to remind you of this grand endeavor…
– Brad Garlinghouse (@bgarlinghouse) October 24, 2025
The Five Grand Purchases
Ah, it all began in May of the year 2023, with the audacious sum of $250 million exchanged for the gem known as Metaco, a Swiss bastion of crypto custody. Ripple, like a benevolent deity, sought to fortify its offerings, bestowing upon its clients the divine gift of technology for custody, issuance, and settlement of tokenized assets.
Fast-forward less than a year, and the astute President Monica Long paraded yet another acquisition before us-Standard Custody & Trust Company, an enterprise-grade fortress in the world of cryptocurrencies.
Then came the fateful year 2025, a time when the number of deals burgeoned like weeds in a forgotten garden. The acquisition of Rail-an entity aimed at accelerating the movement of money, merging the ethereal with the corporeal-was sealed for the princely sum of $200 million.
No less monumental was Ripple’s ambition to construct a billion-dollar treasury company, as they embraced the treasury software wizard GTreasury for a staggering $1 billion, thus ensnaring the complexities of corporate finance.
And, of course, the crowning jewel: the acquisition of the prime broker Hidden Road, whose transaction details emerged like whispers from the void, completed only recently. Now, it triumphantly stands reborn as Ripple Prime-a name that evokes a sense of grandeur and promise!
“Our acquisition of Hidden Road is now official, positioning Ripple as the inaugural crypto entity to wield the reins of a global, multi-asset prime broker – oh, the delight of digital assets unfurled to institutional patrons!” the firm edified us.
What of XRP?
In the euphoria of these developments, the XRP Army reveled, celebratory confetti surely falling from the heavens at the conclusion of the SEC saga. Yet, not all was rosy; some skeptics voiced concerns regarding the implications for the underlying asset. Indeed, the numbers wavered, peeking in July only to tumble about 30% thereafter-a cruel jest from the fickle world of cryptocurrency.
“Brad, dear confidant of the XRP community, we seek enlightenment! How shall the clearing and settlement dance now that Ripple has entwined Hidden Road in its embrace of Ripple Prime?”
Many have spoken of RLUSD’s purported role as the core asset-yet, we entreat you, does RLUSD mingle with the XRP Ledger or merely whisper sweet nothings to it?
– CryptoSensei (@Crypt0Senseii) October 24, 2025
Another voice, teeming with sage wisdom, attempted to elucidate the enigma of XRP’s existence, portraying it as the hapless protagonist in a quest for liquidity. “Alas! A soaring valuation would make transactions swift, demanding less of our beleaguered XRP. Yet RLUSD’s one-to-one ratio with the omnipresent greenback merely skirts the liquidity conundrum!” they lamented.
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