{"id":65306,"date":"2025-12-26T17:01:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T17:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=65306"},"modified":"2025-12-26T17:01:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T17:01:36","slug":"xrp-crashes-48-from-july-high-did-ripple-spend-2-7b-in-vain-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=65306","title":{"rendered":"XRP Crashes 48% From July High: Did Ripple Spend $2.7B In Vain In 2025?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>XRP<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"XRP\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/XRP-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/xrp\/usd\">XRP<\/a>) is down 48% from its $3.65 peak in July peak, despite <strong>Ripple Labs<\/strong> spending $2.7 billion in 2025 on acquiring a prime brokerage, treasury management, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/09\/47502073\/ripples-foray-into-africas-stablecoin-market-could-replace-tethers-usdt-with-rlusd\">and stablecoin infrastructure<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SEC Settlement Ended Four-Year Battle<\/h3>\n<p>Ripple&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/12\/49547700\/xrp-holders-waited-all-year-for-10-3-reasons-why-it-never-came\">transformation<\/a> began after it settled its four-year legal battle with the U.S. SEC.<\/p>\n<p>In August, both sides dropped their appeals, reinforcing a 2023 ruling that separated institutional XRP sales from retail activity.<\/p>\n<p>The move lifted a long-standing regulatory overhang that had limited Ripple&#8217;s growth since 2020 and coincided with a broader shift toward a more <strong>Trump&#8217;s<\/strong> crypto-friendly U.S. policy stance.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The $2.7B Acquisition Spree<\/h3>\n<p>Ripple&#8217;s 2025 strategy <a href=\"https:\/\/decrypt.co\/351545\/year-xrp-2025-new-highs-7-years-ripple-sec-case-ends\">centered<\/a> on acquisitions rather than XRP price action, with roughly $2.7 billion deployed to build a full-stack financial platform.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The company spent $1.25 billion in April to acquire <strong>Hidden Road<\/strong>, rebranded as Ripple Prime, making it the first crypto firm to own a global multi-asset prime broker.<\/p>\n<p>Since acquisition, Ripple Prime\u2019s business reportedly grew 3x.<\/p>\n<p>In October, Ripple added GTreasury &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/12\/49595775\/xrp-crashes-48-from-july-high-did-ripple-spend-2-7b-in-vain-in-2025?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"XRP\" crashes from july high: did ripple spend in vain>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) is down 48% from its $3.65 peak in July peak, despite Ripple Labs spending $2.7 billion in 2025 on acquiring a prime brokerage, treasury management, and stablecoin infrastructure. SEC Settlement Ended Four-Year Battle Ripple&#8217;s transformation began after it settled its four-year legal battle with the U.S. SEC. In August, both sides dropped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-65306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}