{"id":72112,"date":"2026-02-12T12:17:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T12:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=72112"},"modified":"2026-02-12T12:17:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T12:17:04","slug":"xrp-is-the-north-star-says-ripple-ceo-after-4b-in-acquisitions-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=72112","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;XRP Is The North Star,&#8217; Says Ripple CEO After $4B In Acquisitions In 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Ripple<\/strong> CEO <strong>Brad Garlinghouse<\/strong> said the company might pursue acquisitions in the second half of 2026 after spending $4 billion on M&amp;A last year, even as <strong>XRP<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/XRP-USD\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"XRP\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/xrp\/usd\">XRP<\/a>) remains 60% below its peak.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The M&amp;A Strategy<\/h3>\n<p>Garlinghouse told an online XRP Community Day event that 2026 will focus on integration rather than new deals <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblock.co\/post\/389467\/xrp-north-star-ripple-garlinghouse-keeps-door-open-more-acquisitions-2026\">according<\/a> to The Block.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think you should expect any other big acquisitions,\u201d he said. \u201cBut you never know, the second half of the year we\u2019ll start maybe looking to be more acquisitive again,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Ripple invested approximately $4 billion into the crypto ecosystem through investments, mergers, and acquisitions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Major deals included Hidden Road for $1.25 billion and GTreasury for $1 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Hidden Road cleared $3 trillion annually while &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/02\/50571069\/xrp-is-the-north-star-says-ripple-ceo-after-4b-in-acquisitions-in-2025?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"'XRP\" is the north star says ripple ceo after in acquisitions>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said the company might pursue acquisitions in the second half of 2026 after spending $4 billion on M&amp;A last year, even as XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) remains 60% below its peak. The M&amp;A Strategy Garlinghouse told an online XRP Community Day event that 2026 will focus on integration rather than new deals [&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-72112","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\/72112","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=72112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}