Ripple featured CBDC tech for years, dumped it after Trump victory
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After Donald Trump decided they weren’t a good idea, Ripple scrubbed years of its work on a US dollar CBDC.
After Donald Trump decided they weren’t a good idea, Ripple scrubbed years of its work on a US dollar CBDC.
After Ripple scored a political victory that deprioritized BTC, critics say it’s derailing plans for a US National Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.
Ripple’s lobbying efforts scored decisive victories, eliminating the word “bitcoin” from all executive orders signed by Donald Trump.
The final legal filing by the Gary Gensler-led SEC appeals SDNY’s decision that programmatic secondary offerings of XRP weren’t securities.
The billionaire-backed Ripple USD (RLUSD) has failed to capture even 0.05% of the stablecoin sector’s market capitalization.