{"id":75077,"date":"2026-03-05T14:46:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T14:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=75077"},"modified":"2026-03-05T14:46:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T14:46:31","slug":"ripple-is-next-for-fed-access-xrp-commentator-says-but-is-that-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=75077","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Ripple Is Next For Fed Access,&#8217; XRP Commentator Says\u2014But Is That True?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Journalist and crypto commentator <strong>Paul Barron<\/strong> argues <strong>Ripple<\/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 next in line for Federal Reserve master account access after <strong>Kraken<\/strong> secured approval, but critics point out Kraken applied in 2020 while Ripple applied in 2025, suggesting years-long wait.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Kraken Precedent<\/h3>\n<p>Kraken Financial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/prediction-markets\/26\/03\/51038847\/jamie-dimon-dared-crypto-firms-to-be-a-bank-and-kraken-makes-a-big-step-towards-being-one\">received<\/a> approval from the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City for a limited-purpose account granting direct access to Fedwire, the core payment infrastructure used by thousands of U.S. banks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The approval makes Kraken the first crypto company in U.S. history to secure Fed master account access.<\/p>\n<p>Kraken first applied in 2020, spending more than five years in the queue as regulators under the Biden administration stalled crypto banking access.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The approval comes with guardrails: Kraken won\u2019t earn interest on reserves and won\u2019t have access to emergency lending facilities.<\/p>\n<p>The account operates on an initial one-year term with services rolling out in &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/03\/51067006\/ripple-is-next-for-fed-access-xrp-commentator-says-but-is-that-true?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"'Ripple\" is next for fed access xrp commentator says that true>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalist and crypto commentator Paul Barron argues Ripple (CRYPTO: XRP) is next in line for Federal Reserve master account access after Kraken secured approval, but critics point out Kraken applied in 2020 while Ripple applied in 2025, suggesting years-long wait. The Kraken Precedent Kraken Financial received approval from the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City [&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-75077","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\/75077","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=75077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}